Category Archives: Life

This Aspie’s Response to The Imitation Game

Posted on June 19, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

A few months ago, a commenter told me about the 2014 movie, The Imitation Game, and asked me to evaluate its depiction of Asperger’s Syndrome.  I saw the movie a few nights ago, and I am ready to chime in. … Continue reading →

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Unintentional Sin in the New Testament and Books 1-2 of the Sibylline Oracles

Posted on June 17, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

Growing up as a Christian, I was taught that the animal sacrifices in the Old Testament foreshadowed Jesus Christ’s death on the cross to pay the penalty for people’s sins.  I assumed that those sins were intentional sins—-sins that people … Continue reading →

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Ramblings on Historical Connection

Posted on May 29, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

I would like to follow up on my review of the book Theology as Retrieval, by W. David Buschart and Kent D. Eilers (see here).  This will be a rambling post.  If there is a central theme of this post, … Continue reading →

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About That Post I Wrote on Baptism…

Posted on May 20, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

A post that I wrote a few weeks ago, Sermon at a New Church: The Significance of Baptism, has been getting an unusual number of views lately.  I don’t mean that it is going viral, by any means.  Actually, it … Continue reading →

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Ramblings on Ethics, the Golden Rule, and Moral Absolutes

Posted on April 10, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

In this post, I would like to use as my starting-point something that Brian Morley says on page 323 of his book, Mapping Apologetics.  Morley is profiling the thoughts of Christian apologist John Warwick Montgomery, and the topic is the … Continue reading →

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2015 Easter Ramblings

Posted on April 5, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

For Easter Sunday, I went to church this morning.  Actually, I go to church every Sunday, but there were more people at church this morning because it is Easter. My pastor preached about the folded napkin, or burial cloth, that … Continue reading →

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Scattered Ramblings on Sarcasm (With a Detour About Hell)

Posted on February 23, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

These past days have been the sort of days in which crap from my past enters my mind.  I was remembering an incident this morning.  I was an undergraduate in college over a decade ago, and I said something sarcastic … Continue reading →

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Scattered Ramblings on Handling Success

Posted on February 17, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

A few weeks ago, I was watching CBS Sunday Morning on Sunday morning.  During winters or on rainy days when I cannot walk to church, my Mom’s husband drives me, and we watch pieces of CBS This Morning  before we … Continue reading →

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II Chronicles 20

Posted on February 14, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

In II Chronicles 20, the Moabites, the Ammonites, the inhabitants of Mount Seir (the Edomites, most likely), and possibly another group (the NRSV says “some of the Meunites,” probably basing that on what the Septuagint has) are preparing to attack … Continue reading →

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Vaccines (Not That I Am Qualified to Opine)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

I was going to write about the current vaccination controversy today, but I am a bit hesitant to do so.  A lot of people trust what they read online, and that can include my little blog.  I don’t want people’s … Continue reading →

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