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- Matthew 6:25-34; Do Not Worry (Rhetorical Influences)
- Matthew 5:38-42; An Eye for an Eye (Cultural Commentary)
- Matthew 8:14-17; Jesus Heals Many (Historical Backgrounds)
- Matthew 8:1-4; The Man with Leprosy (Cultural Commentary)
- Matthew 7:7-12; Ask, Seek, Knock (Literary Influences)
- Matthew 7:13-14; The Narrow and Wide Gates (Word Study)
- Matthew 7:15-23; A Tree and Its Fruit (Inductive Studies)
- The Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia--- or Not
- John Calvin is Old, and Not Looking a Day over 500
- Colbert on the Bible in Public School Classrooms
- THE RETURN TO THE FOLD--- A.N. WILSON
- CLAPTON AND WINWOOD ON A ROLL
- NO SAFETY IN THE SANCTUARY: ABORTION DOCTOR BRUTALLY MURDERED IN CHURCH
- Chronicles of Middle Earth-- Part One, Hobbiton
- Chronicles of Middle Earth-- Part Four, In the Wardrobe
- AL MOHLER ON POST-CHRISTIAN AMERICA AND EASTER WEEK
- YAHWEH WILL BE THERE
- Assessing the "State of Play"
- Bart Interrupted--- A detailed Analysis of 'Jesus Interrupted'--- Coda
- WHERE'S WALDO.... ERR.... WITHERINGTON??
- PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PRAYER PARTNERS
- When Things Get Squirrelly at Church or Synagogue
- THE INDELIBLE IMAGE: THE FIRST REVIEWS
- FLYING SOLO WITH A FRIEND-- 'THE SOLOIST'
- Planning your January 2010-- a Day for Every Occasion and an Occasion for Every Day
- Oral Roberts Speaks No More
- MP3s are not the MVPs of the Music World
- Cellphones--Driving us Crazy
- New Year's Resolve: Jesus and Money Part Four
- New Year's Resolve: Jesus and Money Part Five
- A Rebuttal to Mr. Robertson
- The Mitchell Report--- Archaic Mark Definitely a Modern Forgery
- Trouble in Turkey for Patriarch Bartholomew
- 'Up in the Air' leaves you---- Up in the Air
- The Seduction of Power-- the Tiger Woods Story
- Just Joni-- The Genius of Joni Mitchell
- The NIV 2011-- A Preview of Coming Attractions
- Julie and Julia on the Joy of Eating
- The Divine Swine-- Make no bones about it!
- Hobbits Infiltrate Dawn Treader Set
- The Indelible Image-- The Interview
- Christmas Ideas Part Two:-- Disney's a Christmas Carrey???
- Catholic Bishops Play Important Role in Passing Healthcare Bill in the House
- Deeper Connections (Part Two)-- The Forgiveness of Jesus
- Meatballs from Heaven
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Two
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Seven
- The Real Face of Jesus--- Shrouded in Mystery
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Five
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Twenty Three
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Twenty One
- The Gospel of Jesus--Part Twenty Seven
- Colbert on Prothero on How All Religions are not One
- The Wheaton Theology Conference
- Mehldau Meltdown?--- Not Likely
- The Earliest Temple in the World
- Caution: Work in Progress-- a Theology of Work
- Cicero-- A Biography by Anthony Everitt
- Books to Read in 2011
- Farewell--- Live Long and Prosper
- This blog is no longer active
- Tom Wright on a Christian's Role in a Democracy
- The Final Reckoning
- Resources from the Duke Convocation 2010
- Mike Bird's Old Spice Commerical about the GNT
- 'Hereafter'--- The Supernatural Network
- A PAIN IN THE NECK--- THE STORY OF PAIN
- Play Ball--- An Ode to Baseball
- In My Mind I'm Gone to Carolina
- What Will You Do?
- MY TEN FAVORITE ROBERT DUVALL MOVIES AND TV SPECIALS
- The Jesus Seminar--- 25 Years Later
- Caesarea Maritima-- The Provincial Headquarters
- Jammin' at the SBL in Hotlanta
- Free critically edited Greek New Testament propels biblical scholarship forward
- Gino's Love Song for His Wife--- Gypsy Days
- The Cadet Chapel At the Air Force Academy--- Part One
- Sole Fide, Sole Scriptura--- What Did the Reformers Mean?
- Atoning for Neglecting the Atonement
- Was Jesus a Qumranite?
- I Think my Daughter's an Arminian--a Response Song
- Food for Thought
- The Changing Face of Seminary Education
- Leighton Ford on a Christian Approach to Muslims
- LOST---Final Commentary
- Lands of the Bible 2010--Philippi
- Iron Man 2-- the Stark Realities
- Lands of the Bible---Aphrodisias
- Lands of the Bible 2010--Meteora
- Lands of the Bible 2010--Istanbul
- Lands of the Bible 2010--Corinth and the Isthmus
- Lands of the Bible---Ballooning over Capadoccia II
- Lands of the Bible 2010-Aspendos
- Despicable Me---- the Trailer
- Despicable Me--- a Wicked Good Movie
- 'CITY LIGHTS'-- A LITTLE FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC PLEASE!
- AND NOW FOR SOMETHING MO BETTER-- THE MOODY BLUES
- LB'S: THE NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION SONG
- MUSICAL DETANTE IN MOSCOW-- 2009'S FIRST THIS TAKES THE CAKE AWARD
- BISHOPS CALLS FOR HI TECH FAST FROM CHIPS AND BYTES
- VERMONT REVISITED: CODA
- ROCKWELL ROCKS
- Positive Reviews of the Living Legacy Pour In.....
- Mr. Soul 1967 Style
- John Piper explains Why Calvinists are so Negative
- GRAFFITI AT THE SBL !
- LISTEN TO YOUR LIFE
- Making Child's Play of the Movies
- Agrapha--- by Maria Mayo Robbins
- Let Your Conscience Be your Guide? Not Exactly
- Star Wars III-- Very Dark Vader
- A Lawyer's View of Pentecost
- Inspired, but not Truthful
- "But the Lord was not in the wind....."
- Money and the Church
- The Lazarus Effect-- Part Four
- The Lazarus Effect--- Part Three
- The Ten Commandments On Blogging on this Site
- The Future of Liberation Theology
- Should Pederasts be in the Pews?
- Between Barack and the Wright Place
- Fasting for Darfur--Hungering for Justice
- The Slaughter of the Innocents-- Rwanda Revisited
- Rocky Balboa-- A Christmas Movie to Grow Old To
- Happy New Year!!
- Who can Commune with God?
- Canât Handle the Proof
- The Air Up There is Rare
- Reflections on Growing Old
- Friday Night In Jerusalem---Fear and Faith, Devils and Dust
- A Very Inconvenient Truth
- Bonny St. Andrews
- The Origins of the English Bible
- 'Little Miss Sunshine'
- The Litmus Test of Genuine Christian Experience
- Going to the dogs at "Eight Below"
- What's inside the 'Inside Man'?
- A Preview of What's Next
- Dan Brown Comes Out of His Rabbit Hole
- Ossuary Rises from the Patina Dust-- the Latest Bombshell
- 'Akeelah and the Bee' gets an A
- What are we Doing Here? Christians in a Stange Land
- Jews and Muslims Celebrating in Jerusalem
- THE NEXT DANCING WITH THE STARS COUPLE
- The Architecture of the Post-Modern Mind, Part II
- They Also Serve....
- BW3 Leads Presidential Race?
- PROSPERITY GOSPEL PRAISE OFFER!
- The Biblical and Impressionist Art of the Art Institute of Chicago
- The Sound of the Soul
- Euromos-- The Growth of Paganism in the Christian Era
- The British Interview with BW3
- The United Methodist General Conference-- April 23-May 2
- AN AMERICAN'S PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR
- The Forensic League--- The Great Debaters
- THE FIRST MAJOR DISCUSSION OF THE YEAR-- 'THE WILL OF GOD'
- Old Wisdom
- Beautiful Turkey-- from the Air
- Charles Wesley Rocks Your Chains Off
- Making a Meal of It-- Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper
- 'The Golden Compass'-- Does Not Point toTrue North
- AKEDAH-- The Bind
- The Living Word of God (in an Age of Truth Decay)
- A VOTERS GUIDE FOR THINKING EVANGELICALSâONE YEAR OUT
- Parchman Lectures Now Online
- A Bridge over 'Troubled Waters'-- Rethinking our Theology of Baptism
- 'Out of the Mouths of Babes'-- "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from email."
- Novel Ideas for Summer Reading
- The Signs of the Times
- The Relationship of the OT to the NT according to John Chrysostom
- Wikipedia Scandal Reveals the Naked Truth
- 'Potter V'-- The Trouble with Harry
- 'Ratatouille'-- A Midsummer's Gourmet Treat
- Common Zen-se from Mom
- Akiane-- Child Prodigy
- Research Reveals Possibility of Reversing Negative Emotions
- Meaning of Life? Here Are Five Better Questions
- 5 Ways to Overcome Negative Thinking
- Five Ways To Discover Your Inner Truth
- Things Don't Add Up in Wal-Mart Scuffle
- My "Oblication" Vacation: Holiday Survival Tips For That Stressful Family Trip
- A Fond Farewell and Thank You
- I'm Still Pissed About Marriage Equality Not Passing In New York State. But Is It My Fault?
- What Not To Eat On A Date (Or A Business Lunch)
- Medical Marijuana: Hey, Man, Does The Fed's New Policy Bum You Out?
- Is There a Free Pass When People Are Just Plain Annoying?
- Pregnant At 66...?!?
- American Idol and AT&T: Fair Play or No Fair?
- Privacy, Dating, and Ethics: Ok to Spy?
- The Weekend Wuss-Out--Musings On the Ethics & Responsibilities of Friendship
- Here's To "Justice!" Harvard Moral Philosophy Class To Appear On PBS!
- Will You Still Eat Eggs? A Vegetarian Responds
- Daylight Savings Time 2009: Why Can't We Keep It All Year Round?
- Diwali Shenanigans
- Emily Post's Etiquette Daily and Everyday Ethics: A Natural Fit
- Should We Be Judged by the Bad Behavior of Our Friends?
- Save The Boobs: PSA Or TMI?
- Can You Sue For Anorexia? Apparently, Yes. But Should You?
- Google Forced to Reveal Blogger's Identity After "Skank" Comment Riles Model: Ethical Or Anti-Freedom Of Speech?
- Failure Friday: I Jump To Conclusions
- A Little Sci-Fi, A Little Ethical Pondering: District 9
- A Question About Infertility
- The Act of Giving -- Who Does It Best? Men or Women?
- The Thank-You Note Nazi
- Kennedy's Example: Ethical, Not Perfect
- New Feature! Failure Friday: We Take a Look at Our Weekly Ethical Fails
- Remembering Ted Kennedy: Are We Doing It Right?
- Fresh Morning: 11 Morning Energizers
- Fresh Morning: Quotes About Sunshine
- Fresh Morning: Smiles and Rainbows
- Fresh Morning: Quotes for Relaxation
- Fresh Morning: Replaying Your Day
- Fresh Morning: Great Life/Day/Moment Instructions
- Whole Foods and the Health Care Debate
- Making Lemonade Out of Layoffs, the Movie
- Mighty Life List: Do You Have One?
- Fresh Morning: Laugh of the Day
- Thinking About Spiritual 2010 Calendars
- A Prayer for Haiti: Solid Ground
-
The Most Inspiring Person of 2009:
Meet Zach Bonner! - Neat Stuff: Parliament of the World's Religions
- How to Dispose of Your Sniffles
- The Health Lessons of 2009
- Fresh Morning: Lemon Water
- Brain Break: A Nummy Lullaby with Elmo & Ricky Gervais
- Brain Break: Happy Hanukkah Video
- Bryant Gumbel: When to Share Health News?
- Fresh Morning: Get a Peaceful Start
- 10 Reasons to Make Gratitude Lists
- Fresh Morning: Gentle Leaf-Boat Prints
- Fresh Morning: Rush Hour
- 21 Simple Ways to Be Happy
- Wordle Word Cloud for Fall
- 2012--The Predictions, Prophesies, Facts, Myths
- Happy World Osteoperosis Day!
- Has Swine Flu Changed Your Habits?
- Fresh Morning: Warming Morning Rituals
- Fresh Morning: Native American Bless-the-Day Blessing
- BreatheText -- a Free Reminder to Breathe
- Fresh Morning: Be Better
- Rap in Peace, Guru
- Seek Reasons to Love
- The Meaning of 'Om'
- Join the Bone Marrow Donor Registry: It Couldn't Be Easier
- Iron Man 2 and Chlorophyll Detox
- Fresh Morning: Achieve Stillness
- Fresh Morning: Make the Day Meaningful
- Quit Smoking, Clear Your Arteries
- My Grandma's Poetry Journal (by Elena Azzoni)
- New Moon on My Mind
- Fresh Morning: The Ears of My Ears Are Awake
- Fresh Morning: Starting the Day with Silence
- Fresh Morning: The Creative Place
- Dog Yoga with Bo-bama Puppy?
- Celebrating the Self--Walt Whitman, Birthdays, and Me
- Calming Swine Flu (and Other) Fears
- Delicious Vegan Birthday Fudge
- Chemicals in Your Cosmetics: The 'Dirty 30'
- Cookies for Your Earth Day Party
- Fresh Morning: Wild Geese
- Fresh Morning: Your Self-Esteem Power
- Fresh Morning: Make Room for New Dreams
- Fresh Morning: Drawing Gratitude in India
- Fresh Morning: Keep It Light, Kiddo
- Brain Break: Do-Gooder Guerrilla Grandma!
- No More Fear of the Deep End
- Our Beyond Blue Interview
- Fresh Morning: Be Nice to You
- Earth Hour 2010: Will You Turn Out?
- Fresh Morning: How to Know When You're There
- Brain Break: Welcome Back, Spring!
- A Recipe for 'Sassy Water'
- Our Comfort Wordle!
- Video: Acupressure for Cold Relief
- The Humor to Hear a True Friend
- What Are Your Comfort Words?
- Fresh Morning: The Waking Spring Garden
- Music from a Bonsai
- My Favorite Healthy, Happy Magazines
- Fresh Morning: Every Little Thing is Gonna Be Alright
- Fresh Morning: Happiness Under Your Feet
- Fresh Morning: Smile!
- Fresh Morning: Sunflowers!
- Fresh Morning: Improve Your Universe
- Fresh Morning: Quotes on Being Present
- What's Your Coziest Winter Clothing?
- Miracle on the Hudson, One Year Later
- So Inspired by Patti Smith
- Stress Flaring? Try a Self-Care Blitz
- Brain Break: Stuffed Animal Yoga
- Fresh Morning: Living Inside Hope
- Fresh Morning: Dalai Lama Wisdom
- Fresh Morning: Tip for Coping with Loss
- 9 Cool Eco Facts from Hunter Lovins
- Fresh Morning: Kids Singing Fleetwood Mac
- Fresh Morning: Loving Words from Michael Jackson
- Prayers for Air France Flight 447
- The Story of Squash
- Is Skin Cancer Fear Keeping You Inside?
- Waiting for the Results of Scary Medical Tests
- Some Happy, Relaxing Quotes
- Study: Does Meditation Change Your Brain?
- Every Flower in its Season
- Five Spiritual (But Fun) Summer Books
- Foodie Friday: Duck Eggs!
- Are Orange Juice Containers Recyclable?
- Battle Scurvy: A Guide to Oranges
- How Do You Get Things Done?
- Health News from Around the Web
- Lighting a Dark Night of the Soul with Yoga
- Fresh Morning: Feel Gratitude
- Are You Happy?
- A Spring Equinox Memory
- Coupons for Green Online Shopping
- My New Favorite Natural Lip Balm
- Kickin' and Screamin': My Musical Oracle
- Friends: a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime?
- Fresh Morning: Kahlil Gibran on Gratitude
- Kelly and Kelly: The Names of Those We Love
- Moving? How to Get Past Cold Feet
- How to Cleanse Your Home with Sage
- Quizzes!
- So Does Meat Cause Cancer or Not?
- Brain Break: Fun with Food Art
- We Broke the Weather!
- The 'Universe' vs. 'God'
- What Does 'Om' Mean?
- Your Plans for Summer Fun
- What's on Your Food?
- Fresh Morning: Surprise Yourself Today
- Brooke Shields on Michael Jackson as 'The Little Prince'
- Do You Play Enough?
- Easiest Fruit Crisp Topping Recipe Ever!
- Fresh Morning: Stand Up Today
- Going on Spiritual Summer Retreats
- Fresh Morning: 'You Are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring'
- 21 Favorite Songs About Rain
- Fresh Morning: Morning Has Broken
- Honest Tea: Not Such a Lonely Word
- Honoring the Legacy of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
- How Often Do You Cry?
- Springtime Depression is Touching My Soul*
- Pigs That Won't Give You the Flu
- The 'Kyoto Box' Solar Oven
- Clipping 'Green' Coupons and Saving Green
- Color: Go Bold or Go Home
- 'Yoga Is My Bailout'
- A Recipe for Very Awesome Veggie Burgers
- How to Feel More Joy in Your Life
- A Monday – Friday Happiness Plan
- 20 Ways to Jump Start Your Inspiration
- The Most Amazing Life Lessons
- 8 Reasons to Let Go of the Past
- 10 Things to Let Go Before 2014 Ends
- 10 Self-Destructive Thoughts to Eliminate to Be Happier
- Sunday Inspiration #70
- Sunday Inspiration #66
- Little Doses of Timeless Wisdom
- Sunday Inspiration #41
- 10 Powerful Life Lessons
- How to Believe in Yourself
- Sunday Inspiration #47
- 10 Lies to Stop Telling Yourself
- What Amazes You?
- Make Someone’s Day Awesome
- What Really Matters
- 10 Ways to Just Play
- 15 Ideas to Help You Live a Better Life
- Sunday Inspiration #24
- Sunday Inspiration #25
- Sunday Inspiration #23
- 5 Tips for Cranking Up Your Creativity
- Forgiveness Quotes that will Free Your Heart
- 10 Ways to Fill Your Soul
- The Gift of Friendship
- Sunday Inspiration #17
- 5 Ways to Restore Trust When It Has Been Broken
- 10 Ways to Recharge Your Batteries
- Sunday Inspiration #29
- 5 Ways to Feel Less Lonely
- 20 Everyday Things to Celebrate
- You Are Stronger than You Think
- Sunday Inspiration #02
- Sunday Inspiration #14
- Sunday Inspiration #13
- How to Create a Simpler Life
- 10 Ways to Say ‘Thank You’
- 5 Simple Steps to Being More Positive
- The sting of snow and the warmth of hearts
- the ongoing heartbreak of American racism
- the gift of friends
- cultural burdens, with homage to Carol Emarthle-Douglas
- introductions
- cleaning house, reprised
- after Christmas (time, research, and priorities)
- the heart of the family
- leftovers, lagniappe, and a happy life
- reflections in a Christmas ornament
- the names of the dead are ghosts
- be here. now.
- living through the unexpected (with equanimity?)
- more on the home front ~
- my own Amtrak writing retreat
- grumpy days
- celebrating what's right
- day 24 of Thanksgiving month: getting ready (or not...)
- month of Thanksgiving #5...the guest room
- day of Thanksgiving lucky number 13: broccoli (and Aunt Bonnie)
- fire, clouds, linings, and all that stuff
- love and mirroring, or, we are not our faults
- names and milestones
- foundations, serendipity, and amaryllis
- engaged Buddhism and other people's dirt
- the importance of being artists
- the pain we bring to others
- borders and threshold spaces
- month of Thanksgiving #6 (short but sweet)
- it doesn't have to be perfect (the enemy of good)
- contrasts and contradictions (or not...)
- with a little help from friends
- taking time (by the throat, if necessary)
- more on mastery, failure, and play
- mastery, creativity, and letting go
- religious extremism, and standing against it
- day 4 National Poetry Month ~
- baby love, and the perpetuation of the species ~
- day 8, National Poetry Month ~
- a relatively restrained rant about education 'reform' ~
- Day 2, National Poetry Month ~
- wonder, and loving strangers (even mean ones??) ~
- MIL/ DIL/ beginner's heart ~
- life budgets ~ or, the rocks in the jar...
- a soul story ~
- day 19 of a month of Thanksgiving: old friends ~
- day 18 of a month of Thanksgiving: bounty (& first-world problems...) ~
- one week into Lent ~
- patience (or the total lack thereof) ~
- chores and a plug for whining
- swords into plowshares, gas bombs into gardens
- right livelihood
- #iftheygunnedmedown, or, America's open season on young black men
- my mother's heart and #Ferguson
- What did George Fox say? or, the Quakers vs. the Puritans
- what dreams can tell us
- ritual and being our own best friends
- when hot sweaty work is NOT a royal pain
- 30 Days of Love: radical love...?
- time runs away from us
- making room
- daylilies, stomach aches, and tonglen
- poetry, seeing, and connection
- spring springing
- a love letter to Portland ~
- Joplin, a tornado, an Arab emirate, & good neighbors ~
- the wind, ventifacts & advice to a young teacher ~
- down time ~
- mistakes, learning, & paying attention
- 'Mom, you're sooo depressing' ~
- 'meet and talk and listen' ~ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
- teaching, practice and love ~
- angry heart: juggling change & compassion ~
- bees and the Buddhist work ethic ~
- cows, vegetarianism & tangled ethics ~
- what's important ~
- Aftermas: the importance of taking/ making time
- Remembering Nelson Mandela, and his shifting place in American history
- waiting (impatiently!) for the National Day on Writing
- sharing stories
- ponytail memories and silver linings
- 30 Days of Love: flotsam, jetsam, tanka, and learning the story
- 30 days of love: hot curlers, love, and doing for others
- prizes, raises, and affirmations -
- love, and the job of it -
- Buddha dogs and learning about love
- tattooed women & liminal spaces ~
- what writers do ~
- a happy (normal?) childhood...
- hawk!
- Oklahoma breaking bad
- no, love is NOT enough
- Darwin, Jane Austen, & my students ~
- resolutions, new years, & new cycles ~
- the price of reflection ~
- the important thing about comprehensive exams (from a Buddhist perspective) ~
- laughter, turn-around & beginner's heart ~
- Bodhi Day, Rohatsu, or Waking Up ~
- a belief in lists ~
- (active) sitting ~
- Other paths: Thích Nhất Hạnh speaks with Oprah about possible lives ~
- when paths part: a contemplation on beginner's heart ~
- life dogs ~
- death, not taxes ~
- every day, the laundry: a tale of Buddha nature ~
- Songkran, or Buddhist New Year in Thailand ~
- anger, patience, and putting out fires ~
- meeting in our good intentions ~
- what I learned today ~
- "as common as grass" ~
- voting, anger, and finding balance ~
- From Emmett Till to Terence Crutcher: a tragic timeline
