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Here is another clip by A.B. Higashi who always makes good points. In this clip he talks about how his religious beliefs are not in conflict with his scholarship because his scholarly knowledge informs his beliefs.

I follow this scholar on YouTube, he has a lot of good things to say. This short recently caught my attention. It's about Noah. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%205%3A32-10%3A1&version=NIV I think he's right. This is an interesting example of traditions involving...

Not really sure if they're hardcore trads or if they are expressing some nuance and irony, or just what is going on with them. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn-zKHrql7eCQHNGyp7w-JQ

I always thought the Bible stories that were hard to make sense of were probably symbolic and thought there might be a guide to them somewhere. 2 short videos: Dan McClellan has this to say about the story of the Gentile woman who asked Jesus to heal her daughter. (I don't like the thumbnail...

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-cancels-its-first-and-largest-study-centered-women

I intend this to be about the role of religion in social or public life and not about a controversial political topic. It is about I certainly hope this is not controversial here. (It's about not wanting affairs of state to meddle in religious affairs, interfering or promoting- neither one is...

The idea of resurrection came from Judaism first AFAIK- I do not know or cannot remember if non Abrahamic faiths have the idea or not I appreciate this little article: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2626/jewish/The-Resurrection-of-the-Dead.htm Including and especially the...

So this is a 9 minute video, which may be a bit long but it's not huge. The speaker in this video explains how in Presbyterianism, or possibly other Reformed churches, it is considered inappropriate or unscriptural to show representations of Jesus. I thought I had heard that of Mennonite and...

This little short video includes a man saying he is no longer Bahai, probably for more than one reason, but the reason he states here has to do with a conflict between the teaching of equal rights between men and women, BUT that women are forbidden from serving in the highest decision making...

Fair notice - it involves some reinterpretation by a knowledgeable Rabbi. A fresh perspective I hadn't heard before. Not affirming the classical or historic interpretation. https://rabbirami.substack.com/p/bar-abbas-not-barabbas

Sometimes the Guardian articles are easy to open and sometimes they will have a pop up that asks you to sign in (apparently for free) But sometimes just clicking it will open the article, or opening it on another browser Anyway I just happened to run into these while looking at some other...

This video is kind of a trip. You really have to watch it from start to finish to make any sense of it or contextualize it at all. I do not know if Modern Norse Pagans would take any offense or if they would appreciate the humor. Does the humor even make sense? Is it actually humor? Or are they...

Though this has a political angle to it, at it's heart it's about religious freedom - who can have it, who cherishes it for all, and who doesn't. I did check in with iBrian about it and we decided to see how it goes. 2 related videos, one a reaction to the other. The first is Rev Ed Trevors...

I ran across a notebook (years old) where I had written some observations about a radio show I was listening to, where a man was talking about religious belief and struggles he had had earlier in his life in his home country. He was talking about his encounters with people from various...

I wonder about the concept of "heresy" and what members here think about it. Divergent views are, I guess, perceived as a threat to an organized religion's power over people... I try to get my head around why some ideas are less tolerated than others, when does heterodoxy become heresy, or when...

I want to discuss bible scholars. Bible scholars know A LOT. They are not always liberal or atheist, though many are or came to be through what they have learned. But many study deeply and remain deep believers. I really appreciate the late Dr Michael Heiser. He was an evangelical bible...

A New Year's song from about 50 years ago I ran across on YouTube by accident. Some swearing and very very cynical. Otherwise, enjoy...

This came up on my feed on YouTube. It refers to statements made by religious authorities about the importance of the ocean.

I acquired a copy of a book called Annotations: Philosophical Religious, Cultural, Historical: The Early British Perennialist Authors Compiled by William Stoddard copyright 2019 I'm not sure what to make of it. It is a slim volume of short essays by various authors. I think maybe getting this...

https://www.earth.com/news/its-official-earth-now-has-two-moons-captured-asteroid-2024-pt5/