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A Baptist pastor from Waco died this morning after he was electrocuted when his microphone got wet in the baptismal pool.

Due to flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the Beth Israel Synagogue on Canal Blvd had 8 feet of water and the Torah scrolls were in danger of being desecrated. Becky Heggelund, a Christian woman who worked at Beth Israel for a few years back in the 1990’s, helped out by burying the [...]

According to the CS Monitor, my darlings, there is a new textbook being promoted to teach public school children about the Bible and its influence on our world.

Darlings, it seems some church in Ohio kicked out an elderly woman in a wheelchair with heart trouble for not paying her tithes. Youch! What does this have to do with the Bible? Well, Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek (Genesis 14:20). That’s about it, darlings.

An Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar, digging at the City of David in East Jerusalem, has like uncovered a pretty large structure in what seems to be a 10th century context. She and others have even said it might be the palace of David. Time will tell, maybe, but for now you can read more about [...]

Some want Sydney Australia to host the Catholic World Youth Day in 2008. So how to attract kids? Why not ask “expert” Mel Gibson to organize a live crucifixion. What a fun idea.

Darlings, a new version of “Bible” is out from LBI (Law and Business Institute?!?) which depicts God as a woman and it even has a female Jesus. It’s long title is Judith Christ of Nazareth: the Gospels of the Bible Corrected to Reflect That Jesus Christ Was a Woman, Extracted from Matthew, Mark, Luke and [...]

So this dude named Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, and buddy of Pope Benedict XVI, recently wrote in an op-ed for the NY Times things like “Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection [...]

The Iraqi government intends to build a dam on the Tigris River near Mosul, which would flood most of Assur, the ancient capital, religious center, and namesake of Assyria.

For 2000 years some of the best minds have been researching the Bible, soooooo my darlings, is there anything new that the academic discipline of biblical studies (if it is academic at all?) can say? Is it possible for biblical scholars to reclaim the Bible from all of the other discipline? Is the Bible even [...]