The big conspiracy
Bill Allison has a couple of interesting posts about the Council of Nicea, here and here. In the former Bill...

The calling
Lately gender has become the talk of the Christian blogosphere again, and the perennial question of women's ordination came up....

The to-don't list
Ben Kepple, a reporter I knew in passing when he lived in L.A., recently put up a list of things...

Yes, I am a flake
Haven't been in the mood for blogging lately, and tonight and tomorrow night I'm going to be busy. I have...

A different Easter meditation
Andi discusses Jesus in a Zen Center....

The blogfather speaks
Telford is wondering if he should keep (or rather, resume) blogging: I have enjoyed doing this, but my experience has...

Revisited
Perverse soul that I am, on Holy Saturday I was tempted to write, "Happy Harrowing!" I've still been getting a...

Mark 9
There are several classic stories packed into this chapter. First we have the Transfiguration, where Peter, James and John see...

Dissent
I started writing a response to Kynn in the previous post, but it was getting so long I thought I...

Calling a spade a bishop
Jonathan, the new Methodist co-blogger at The Ivy Bush, links to an interesting discussion between heterodox Anglican bishop John Shelby...

Accidental discipleship
So last night I was reading and chowing down from a little tub of calimyrna figs I got from Trader...

Random magic
Joel and I recently discussed the morality of Goldilocks. He's right that fables have been used for teaching ever since...

Fun with numerology
Tom answered my request for what meaning scholars have derived from all the numbers in Mark 8: "By the five...

Mark 8a
I noticed in GG's post on the middle part of Mark 8, commenter Pat remarks on a healing story in...