Rodent Regatta

While I’m digging out from the workslide, you can read this. There are many more excellent articles that will bring you up to date about this upcoming Easter release.

On this day last year I posted one of my favorite poems of all time.

In my circle of friends and acquaintances are conservatives who would be deeply offended by this. In that same circle are Christians who would label it blasphemy. There are liberals in that group who would be offended – well, just because that’s what they do best.

If one reads it with eyes (and heart) wide open, you get some sense of what the real message might be. [thanks to Jeffrey Veen for the link]

David Carroll starts the new year with an explanation of how one’s world view must answer four questions. He also offers a point of view about how thiings came to be as they are.

Any thoughts you might have harbored that suggested we’d all get along in 2004 should probably be dropped. We won’t! Here’s a short excerpt showing why:

Has Bishop Chane actually read the Quran? Does he now mean to identify the Quran as the inspired and literally dictated Word of God as it is claimed to be by Muhammad and his followers? Does he now intend to identify himself with the teachings of the Quran? This would be the inescapable conclusion reached by anyone who heard his message.

But a more significant question intrudes. Has Bishop Chane read the Bible? In his first of these questions, Bishop Chane asked what God was thinking ”when the angel Gabriel was sent by God to reveal the Law to Moses.” The Angel Gabriel is identified by name four times in the Bible. In the only Old Testament references [Daniel 8:16 and 9:21], Gabriel is the divine messenger to Daniel. In the Gospel of Luke, the Angel Gabriel spoke to Zechariah [Luke 1:19] and to Mary [Luke 1:26]. Gabriel’s declaration to Mary that she, though a virgin, would conceive the Christ indicates the prominence of this angel in the Bible. Nevertheless, there is no biblical reference to Gabriel having anything to do with God revealing the Law to Moses. To the contrary, God revealed the Law directly to Moses at Mt. Sinai [Exodus 19:18-25].

Dr. Albert Mohler
Heresy in the Cathedral:
Bishop Chane’s Christmas Message
Wednesday, December 31, 2003