Religion and Neuro-Science

In a new study, Epley (2009) found that, "when people contemplated God’s opinions, their brains activated similarly to when they were contemplating their own opinions — the same was not true when they contemplated the opinions of other people." A tip of the hat to Andrew Sullivan for this article. Epley's study may be read in full here.

Free Language Classes Are The Dog's Bollocks!

The cheeky buggers at the BBC are offering 36 different language classes that are free and pedagogically similar to Rosetta Stone. I'm currently taking BBC German to supplement my course at the South Hamilton Institute of Theology, and so far I am pretty damn satisfied. If you want to learn a language but think the $1,200 Rosetta Stone fee is codswallop, click here. Please forgive the kitschy British references. Now sod off mate!

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Community.

To view the only existent video footage of Barth and hear Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology, click on the vid:

A Tragedy of Shakespearian Proportions.

Defending the New Perspective

N.T. Wright responds to the infallible John Piper.

The Beaks of Wrath.

Drama unfolds in paradise when a Pelican tries to eat a cat. Watch to see if this bird is a Peli-can or a Peli-can't.

What Is The New Perspective on Paul?

Wright and Dunn explain:

Nottingham's Faculty Dishes Out Knowledge...

...Like it's going out of style. Nottingham's biblical studies faculty is currently undergoing a project to post streaming videos exploring the 66 different books of the bible. Click here for free U of Nottingham education, sans degree. And if theology is not your bag, click here to become well versed in the periodic table of the elements.