James F. McGrath
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Professor of Religious Studies and Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature, Butler University
Indianapolis
Joined December 2009
Tragic and comical all at once, or just another day of the Trump administration: "Education Dept. asks hundreds of fired employees to temporarily return" https://t.co/YoOBBbWOG8
usatoday.com
The federal Education Department is asking hundreds of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to temporarily return to help clear a backlog of cases.
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We Need More (Real) Baptists “The First Amendment and the separation of church and state was the best thing that ever happened to religion in the United States.” -- Randall Balmer
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Sunday Inspiration: Indifference
pursiful.com
Indifference is the one thing that makes the angels weep.—William James
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Augustine and Jerome on Composition, Publication, and Biblical Scholarship
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What Is God’s Name? The Meaning of YHWH (& Other “Names”)
logos.com
Discover the meaning of the name, YHWH, and other descriptive titles for God. Learn why Bibles use "LORD" (all-caps) and its significance from Exodus 3.
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🚨 The Decarceral DA Candidate Who Wanted to Strip Power from the Police Commissioner and Push a $30–$50 Minimum Wage Is Now on Mamdani’s Legal Affairs Team Tahanie Aboushi is a former Democratic candidate for Manhattan DA. In 2021, she ran on a platform of declining to
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Reporting on how Donald Trump seeks retribution against his enemies. Such a mean-spirited and vindictive individual should not lead a nation. That so many want him to shows how spiritually and ethically twisted a huge number of Americans are. https://t.co/EFINeQSIBY
reuters.com
A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.
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Excluding cosmological theories that do not fit the data is progress as we explore the mysteries of the universe https://t.co/XfFo8fhMri
gizmodo.com
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile not only confirmed one of the greatest mysteries in the universe—it also ruled out dozens of models that attempted to solve it.
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Science must move from materialism to mystery: Theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that modern science has become trapped in a framework that mistakes matter for the whole of reality. https://t.co/EWe9Eid8Uu
iai.tv
Theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that modern science has become trapped in a framework that mistakes matter for the whole of reality. In this wide-ranging interview,...
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Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science https://t.co/sYWXpe6MiY
theguardian.com
Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA
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The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: Knowledge, Happiness, and Freedom
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