Daily Archives: January 16, 2012

Is It Orson? Star Trek: Voyager Anniversary

I have two entertainment items for today: 1.  On Desperate Housewives, who is the one who is leaving Bree notes and ran over Officer Chuck with a car?  We know that it’s a man, for, last night, we saw his … Continue reading

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Martin Luther King Day 2012

For my post today on Martin Luther King, Jr., I will use as my starting-point something that David Marshall says on pages 113-114 of True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture: “American magazines like Time and Atlantic … Continue reading

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Qumran Exclusivism

In this post, I will draw from two essays in Justification and Variegated Nomism, Volume 1: The Complexities of Second Temple Judaism: Markus Bockmuehl’s “1QS and Salvation at Qumran”, and Roland Deines’ “The Pharisees Between ‘Judaisms’ and ‘Common Judaism’”. I … Continue reading

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