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The Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology? By Jim Palmer from his email of September 4, 2026. All emphasis below is mine. Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. […]
Continue ReadingAll below is by Jim Palmer The Jesus Beneath Christianity What happens when we separate a first-century Jewish teacher from two thousand years of theology Jim Palmer, Sep 04, 2026 Preface Last night, twenty-one people enrolled in the Existential Health Practitioner Training and Certification Course gathered together for the first time. They come from remarkably […]
Continue ReadingCharles Bledsoe’s comment to a post at BSA here. It’s been a little while since I took his course here on the Hebrew Bible, but if I recall, and understood him correctly, Dr. Baden is of the view that reading and interpreting the Bible is, and has always been a creative engagement with it. Readers […]
Continue ReadingExtracted from Jim Palmer‘s Facebook post on 7/28/2026. This is a very good list of issues with his short, concise statement of context. All emphasis is mine. 10 Religious Ideas You Don’t Need a Degree in Theology to Know Are False For much of history, ordinary people were told they lacked the education, training, or […]
Continue Reading7/18/2026 – From Dr. Bart Ehrman’s blog post here. The five posts linked below by Bart’s good friends are very interesting, as the two scholars articulate how they balance faith, the church, and the academy. As Dr. Jeff Siker said he lives with “one foot in the church and one in the academy”. They are […]
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer from his Facebook post. Emphasis is mine. Christianity did not simply misunderstand Jesus. It reversed his message. Instead of preserving Jesus as an example of what it means to become fully human, Christianity steadily elevated him beyond humanity itself. It transformed him into a cosmic exception: born of a virgin, the only […]
Continue ReadingPost at BSA by Steve Hunsaker on 7/13/2026 in God, Faith & Theology. The Promised Land Is Not a Place What does “holy land” and “promised land” really mean, and what we lose when we make it literal You were handed these words as geography. The holy land: a strip of earth at the far […]
Continue ReadingThis post was started to prep for CU’s July 4th, 250th Anniversary celebration by showing the movie “A Great Awakening”. The content below is about that movie. From ChatGPT on 6/26/2026 – Prompt: What are the critical bible scholars’ views of the movie called “A Great Awakening” Response: There has been very little published commentary […]
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer Before the extracts from his very good article, here is a clip from his article, The Bible After God: A Post-Religion Guide for Understanding the Bible “…theology isn’t the free search for truth, as much as a defense of an already held position. A lot of theological reasoning is circular, inevitably “proving” […]
Continue ReadingUMC Website and UMC Creed. The Sermons of John Wesley (1872 Edition) – The Standard Sermons Sermons of John Wesley includes Sermon 98 – On Visiting The Sick, which includes positions on women and references Matthew 25:36 and cites Phoebe. …six common disciplines or “Rules” found in The Works of John Wesley (1816): It has long […]
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