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Berlinerblau on Huckabee

Jacques Berlinerblau, of “What’s Wrong with the Society of Biblical Literature?” fame, has a new book out called Thumpin’ It: The Use and Abuse of the Bible in Today’s Presidential Politics. He has taken the opportunity to reflect the interests of this last book on the current race and has an excellent specimen in Mike [...]

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Christian High School Student Sues his Teacher for "Anti-Christian" Remarks

Okay, so when I was a fundamentalist high school student, sure, I felt like I was an oppressed minority. This is the nature of fundamentalism, you think that your group (no matter how big) is a small minority facing attacks from all sides. So, all comments, especially from authority figures, are subject to this filter [...]

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Augustine on the Donatists: "Correct and Heal Them"

[This was for an assignment for Early Church History with James Bradley. We were to exegete a particular historical text, in this case Augustine's Correction of the Donatists, by giving some historical context, describe the author's thesis and how he defends it, and briefly evaluate the work. I chose this work by Augustine, instead of [...]

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