Daily Archives: February 28, 2012

Disorganized Ramblings on Religion in the Public Square

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As many of you know by now, Rick Santorum said that John F. Kennedy’s speech on the separation of church and state made him want to “throw up”.  I watched Santorum on ABC This Week as he attempted to clarify … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Projects for Black History Month

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For the last two days of Black History Month, I was planning to blog about the chapter on civil rights in Joan Hoff’s Nixon Reconsidered.  But I changed my mind on that, for a variety of reasons.  For one, the … Continue reading →

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John Meier on the Authenticity of Josephus and Tacitus in Their References to Jesus

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I started volume 1 of John Meier’s A Marginal Jew, which is about Jesus.  In this post, I will talk about Meier’s discussion about the authenticity of two extrabiblical references to Jesus: that of Josephus (first century C.E.), and that … Continue reading →

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