Sooooo true

TommyMertonHead from the Boar's Head Tavern:

I’m trying to find a metaphor to measure the difference between Wright and Mclaren.

If Wright had entered a meeting of the Jesus Seminar, he would emerge, covered in blood, carrying the heads of his adversaries in a sack.

If Mclaren had entered a meeting of the Jesus seminar, he would have emerged in lingerie, giggling.

A Good Point About the Ancient World

N. T. Wright says this in his book Jesus and the Victory of God (p. 186, footnote 160):

It is naive to suppose that first-century Galilean villagers were ready to believe in "miracles" because they did not understand the laws of nature, or did not realize that the space-time universe was a closed continuum.... As has often been pointed out, in Mt. 1.18f. Joseph was worried about Mary's unexpected pregnancy not because he did not know where babies came from but because he did.

N.T. Wright on Comedy Central

Promoting the book Surprised By Hope on "The Colbert Report"



I thought he did very well considering the show (but perhaps Colbert is sympathetic due to his Catholicism).