Parchment & Pen Blog

Historians take note of potentially embarrassing elements found in historical documents. Why? Because those who are writing true history don’t normally include things that might turn their face red. If you are embellishing something, you leave all that stuff out! This is why the potentially embarrassing elements of the Gospels are a significant part of [...]

I realize that some of you were expecting this blog to give a few examples of meaningful and viable textual variants. But that will have to wait till next week. For now, I wanted to take on a different topic. I suppose I could justify this by saying that it is still on the topic [...]

Divorce is sin. Divorce is bad. God hates divorce. Divorced people can never remarry. If you remarry, you will be in a perpetual state of sin unless you remarry your former spouse. These are all the things that constitute good conservative Christian counsel to those who are considering divorce. Right? Yet after divorce and subsiquent [...]

A student was kind enough to sketch us out. Rhome is on the left and I am in the middle. The guy on the far right is Timon Bingtson. He was an intern for The Theology Program. richards on 09 Nov 2007 at 6:08 am # Where’s Michael’s vest? stevemoore on 09 Nov 2007 at [...]

The news has been out since 2004 that the world’s leading atheist, Antony Flew, changed his mind in light of the available evidence. Like waking up from a bad dream, a number of atheists and skeptics reacted in, well, . . . disbelief. Their stance shifted to skepticism and then, as this late-in-life conversion became [...]