Merry Christmas!

OK, just one more from my favourite American preacher! :-)

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Christmas and Q

Doug Chaplin shows us why nothing is more Christmassy than than the gospel according to Q. ;-)

brick-a-brack 10/12/10

Don't expect much from me for the next week or so, but always glad to furnish you with some fascinating reading from around the biblioblogosphere!

• Steve Douglas offers his own take on the Jesus/Paul problem, i've only had time to skim it but it looks good
• A moderate muslim's recommendation for a book on the history of Islam
• Finally a Bible translation admits what scholars have known for decades about the "inn" with no room
• Robert Myles shares his paper on Jesus' homelessness in Matt 2:13-23

brick-a-brack 8/12/10

• Randy Alcom takes evangelical dishonesty to task, it is a chilling article.
• Robin Gunston, National Director of Prison Fellowship NZ, speaks on Prisons (their rising costs), Penal Policy (our highly punitive outlook), and how ordinary New Zealanders can influence both for the better. 
• Lots of people have been getting excited about Scot McKnight's article on Jesus and Paul.  
• Stuart has a great post on preaching in a digital age.
• A fascinating post on Joseph's reasons for wanting to send Mary away, suspicion or humility?

Brick-A-Brack 01/12/10

• Claude Mariottini gives a concise and very helpful argument that God did not command genocide in Joshua and Judges
• Loren Rossen cites three historical Jesus scholars on why the non-canonical gospels are not admissible for historical Jesus research, "Two of them are secular liberals, so it's not as if plain sense flows only from Christian bias." 
• TVNZ reports on "a former atheist who found God and like many Christians he's trying to make the world a better place."
• Darrell on the modern and hypothetical ancient Greek word for blog.

And something to get you in the Christmas mood,