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Before "In the Beginning": The Creation Myths That Shaped Genesis By Megan Lewis Where did the ideas in Genesis come from? Why do its creation stories sound strangely familiar—and familiar to what? In this lecture, Megan Lewis explores ancient Mes ... Read Article

(1) Genesis at the Crossroads: Where Hebrew Bible Scholarship Has Been and Where It’s Going By Dan McClellan In this opening keynote, Dan McClellan takes a wide-angle look at Hebrew Bible scholarship through the lens of Genesis. He reflects on how ... Read Article

Bart’s primer lecture was a brief overview of Genesis and some of the key scholarly debates like the various sources for the two creation myths and the historicity of the patriarchs I am especially looking forward to Kenton Sparks’ lecture on the b ... Read Article

Last Time Secular Reflections: Why was Jesus Appearing to Everyone According to Paul? (2/2) Secular Reflections: Why was Jesus Appearing to Everyone According to Paul? (Conclusion) Secular Reflections: Why was Jesus Appearing to Everyone Accordin ... Read Article

Previously in This Series: Secular Reflections: Why was Jesus Appearing to Everyone According to Paul? (2/2) Secular Reflections: Why was Jesus Appearing to Everyone According to Paul? (Conclusion) Secular Reflections: Why was Jesus Appearing to ... Read Article

We've been thinking about the risen Jesus in Paul as ghost sightings. The concept of ghosts (phantasma in Greek) was well-known in the ancient world. In the gospels, when Jesus walked on water (Matthew 14:26) and when He appeared after His resurrection ( ... Read Article

As I said last time in a note, a minority of New Testament scholars like Tabor and Carrier think the earliest Christians believed Jesus left his old body of dust behind like shed clothes and received a new spiritual body. It would make sense resurrection ... Read Article

In 1 Corinthians 15:5–8 (NRSVUE), Paul writes that Jesus appeared to Cephas, the twelve, over 500 believers, James, all the apostles, and finally to Paul himself I’ve noted previously Paul is suggestive of strong ties to stoicism, such as being fro ... Read Article

Last Time: Celebrating 100 Years of Martin Heidegger’s “BEING AND TIME” (Dedicated to Edmund Husserl April 8, 1926) Now the Conclusion For those of you intellectually impatient like me, here's the gist: Preamble: Paul was an apocalypt ... Read Article

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Previously: ANNOUNCEMENT: My 50th Birthday is Next Month and Starting August 7th I’ll be Blogging About and Celebrating the 100 Years Centenary of Martin Heidegger’s Gift of “Being and Time!” Now: I hope my last post whetted your appetite ... Read Article

PREVIOUSLY (INDEX) Education, Philosophy, Religion: The Dog Days of Summer Posts NOW: “Faith has no place in thought (Martin Heidegger, ‘Anaximander’s Saying,’ in Off the Beaten Track, 280).” What follows are some backgro ... Read Article

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PREVIOUSLY: Have a Great and Reflective Summer! Celebrating New Teachers: Education and Metaphysics with Squaring and Circling (2/2) Celebrating New Teachers: The Interview What I’m Watching: Jacob Berman and Dr. Robert M. Price on the Parou ... Read Article

I'm still on vacation from regularly posting on the blog, but... In honor of my American friends, I like to celebrate the United States with an English word: “Thing.”  I usually work with translations of various languages like German, French, ... Read Article

July 1st is a nationwide statutory holiday in Canada, officially known as Canada Day. It celebrates the anniversary of Canadian Confederation and is a paid day off for eligible employees across all provinces and territories. It is widely celebrated w ... Read Article

If you'd like to see more by me, here is my Author's Page at The Secular Web. (Darth Harley, Bark Lord of the Sith and curator of Secular Web Kids) ... Read Article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dMWRUSngN4&t This is a great topic and I encourage reading Price’s article on it HERE. Here are some thoughts the video occasioned on the crucifixion. Substitutionary atonement is basically the idea th ... Read Article

From 2026 American Worldview Inventory – Report #4: Dr. George Barna, the Director of Research at the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, explained that the purpose of the Center’s annual worldview research is to help parent ... Read Article

Last Time: What I’m Watching: Jacob Berman and Dr. Robert M. Price on the Parousia Now, the conclusion In some ways the parousia in the New Testament is not just a future eschaton but a current reality, such as "Christ in You" in Paul's letters ... Read Article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4s0-S9CZ_w I've been watching some videos in my free time and would like to share some thoughts occasioned by this one. Does Jesus say the kingdom is within, even in the hearts of the hard hearted pharisees? The Ol ... Read Article

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Last Time: Celebrating New Teachers: Education and Metaphysics with Squaring and Circling Now the conclusion: I’m still on vacation here at the blog, but I wanted to do a part 2 for the last post.  While last time I talked about some id ... Read Article

* (INTRODUCTION) Examples of Organizing Thinking with the Magic of 4s (Children Playing 4-Square at Recess) NEXT TIME: (2/2) Celebrating New Teachers: The Interview BUT FIRST: I’ve been on vacation from blogging until the Fall ... Read Article

I think I finally got all the typos in my last blog post, lol! We were thinking about fourfold rubrics of criteria used to teach, assess/evaluate.  In the history of Metaphysics from Plato to Heidegger, you have the basic idea that the really real ... Read Article