Reading sacred scriptures as a scholar?

James McGrath looks at how a scholar can read the Bible as a scholar and as a believer.... comments which apply to scholars of Judaism and Islam also..  [just click on the title to get the link]

Ted

http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2011/02/approaching-bible-academically-not-just.html

The Copts - forgotten in coverage of the Egyptian furor

The Copts.....


 http://www.getreligion.org/2011/01/where-are-the-copts-in-this/

http://www.copticchurch.net/

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I wonder.... is this gentleman's movement a religion?

look also at the wikipedia article  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti

and there are books by him available in university libraries.....

Darkness

Listen to this interesting talk on darkness and light.....

divine darkness

Exploring Our Matrix: Scholars Assembling Puzzles: Illustrating Differen...

A super apologia for scholarship

Exploring Our Matrix: Scholars Assembling Puzzles: Illustrating Differen...: "When scholars investigate a question - whether a question about historical events, or the interpretation of a text or other sort of data - t..."

Islam and Science Fiction

Thanks to James McGrath for this.....

Atheists

The National Post newspaper has been running a debate... no, not a debate, no one debates anymore - one side screams at the other, and the one with the strongest lungs wins - over religion vs. atheism.

All I can say is, that 1:  there will always be people of faith whatever logic or faux logic atheists propose as faith is somehow intrinsic to much of humanity - in different degrees of course... and 2:  Attempting to explain faith to an atheist is tantamount to trying to describe 'green' to someone born blind.  You can natter on and on about wavelengths etc. etc. but never really come close to describing the experience of 'green'  -- it is next to impossible  getting those of us who are not colour blind to agree on green!

Ted