SBL Greek New Testament (via Better Bibles Blog)

HT: David Haslam Open Scriptures announces the availability of the SBL Greek New Testament. This is a first-ever freely downloadable modern critical edition of the Greek New Testament with apparatus. Congratulations and thanks are due to the many individuals and organizations that have worked to make this possible. The edition is available for Logos Software, as [...]

Soon you’ll be able to Google the Dead Sea Scrrolls

According to Reuters scholars and anyone with an Internet connection will be able to take a new look into the Biblical past through an online archive of high-resolution images of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls. Israel Antiquities Authority along with Google’s research and development facility are teaming up to provide digital images of the entire [...]

Water footprint: how the fashion industry and your shopping impact the Planet (via Elena_SC’s Blog)

Today is Blog Action Day, and I decided to be part of this great event. When I found out this year’s topic – water – and I read the list of suggested post ideas, I didn’t hesitate one second: I was going to write about water’s footprint in fashion. The reason is simple: I am [...]

Clean Water is Hard to Come By

Today is Blog Action Day 2010 and right this minute people all over the word are talking and reading about one thing.  Clean water. I know that most of the time I take it for granted that I can just go to the sink, turn on the faucet, and water comes out. Doesn’t seem like [...]

Bottoms Up, Pregnant Women! (via The Blogs at HowStuffWorks)

Pregnant women everywhere can knock back a pint without feeling an ounce of guilt, thanks to study findings published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (via Discovery News). Based on long-term research that followed 18,500 children from the moment they exited … Read More via The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

C.S. Cowles on God and Canaanite Genocide (via Philosophia)

If you enjoy this post, please also read Randal Rauser. C.S. Cowles writes a convincing essay on the christocentric hermeneutic and how one ought to understand genocide in the Old Testament. Those committed to Biblical inerrancy and infallibility of all Scripture must maintain a tension in the texts between the Old and New Testaments and [...]

The tea party movement and the church.

Today, Mike Huckabee was on The Hot Seat on Fox.  During the interview he was asked if he identified more with the Republican party or the tea party movement.  He said that he identified more with the tea party movement based on its dissidence and insurgence.  When asked if he would make a party switch,  [...]