word of the week... "bafflegab"

Posted by Quixie at 12:06 AM

It sounds like a made-up slang thing, I know . . . Encarta Dictionary: “Nonsense. …. pretentious and obscure talk full of technical termino...

repost for the curious

Posted by Quixie at 1:52 PM

For anyone who might be genuinely interested in listening to a pretty good presentation of the mythicist case in three parts. The podcaster ...

Quixie's maxim #2 . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:18 AM

    "Doubt any biblical scholar who persists in referring to Jesus' ' ministry ' ."     Ó .

slumdogs on film . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:56 PM

I watched the film Slumdog Millionaire a few days ago. A slumdog is a homeless child of the mean streets of Mumbay and the other urban cent...

historicity and faith ...

Posted by Quixie at 1:40 PM

I've been monitoring a few discussions about historicity (that of Jesus among other things) and have been meditating on a few things tha...

Early Christian Writings is back!

Posted by Quixie at 4:32 AM

I'm happy to see that Peter Kirby's website devoted to Early Christian Writings has been resurrected. I, for one, have missed this ...

PBS documentary on historical Jesus ...

Posted by Quixie at 4:16 AM

PBS recently finally made its Frontline episode From Jesus to Christ available for streamed viewing on their website. It's a four hour...

from their cold, dead hands . . .

Posted by Quixie at 9:28 AM

I'm going to discontinue anonymous comments. I just rejected one for a post, partly because it had little to do with the point of the po...

quote of the day - Bentov's law . . .

Posted by Quixie at 8:49 PM

One's level of ignorance increases exponentially with accumulated knowledge. For example, when one acquires a bit of new information, th...

On presuppositions . . .

Posted by Quixie at 2:51 PM

One of my favorite films in recent years was The Messenger , the dramatized story of Joan of Arc starring Milla Jovovich as Joan. A fantasti...

haiku for a stormy night ...

Posted by Quixie at 9:19 PM

Rain falls in torrents Echoes the songs of ancients . . . Electrons rumble (for Mr. Grand, my 9th grade science teacher, wherever you may be...

Marcus Borg coming to Phoenix . . .

Posted by Quixie at 10:44 AM

The topic: Beyond Atheism: The Truth and Limits of the Atheist Critique Thursday, January 29, 2009, 7:00 pm Church of the Beatitudes 555 W ...

Rei Momo

Posted by Quixie at 11:54 AM

I had a bone to pick in the past year ( † & ‡ ) with Ben Witherington ( W ), one of the most active and best known conservative apol...

quote of the day - Carl G Jung ...

Posted by Quixie at 3:41 PM

" The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of th...

Cthulhu carol . . .

Posted by Quixie at 12:48 PM

This is weirdly interesting. . . HT-Exploring Our Matrix Ó .