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7/18/2026 – 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 10 Religious Ideas We No Longer Need to Believe And the human problems they were trying to solve Extracted from Jim Palmer’s SubStack, Jun 04, 2026. Religion is often evaluated as though its primary purpose were to provide accurate information about reality. That is rarely why religious ideas survive. Religious ideas survive […]
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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