Monthly Archives: August 2011

Jean-Fabrice Nardelli’s reply to Gagnon / Witherington: No more mincing! Gagnon is an inaccurate and poor student of Biblical homosexuality

In a recent post, Remnant of Giants interpreted the David and Goliath story as a displaced tryst between two homosexual men. The post was commented on by classicist Jean-Fabrice Nardelli. As Jean-Fabrice’s very interesting comment was buried among the other comments, I have elevated it … Continue reading

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No, you the Goliath! Eddie Long’s young male lovers claim they are David and Eddie is Goliath

According to The Christian Post, two of the young men with whom Eddie Long had sexual relations - after he had selected them from his church’s youth group, in order to “mentor” them - have finally spoken out about the affairs. When the … Continue reading

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The Earth a Breast, Paradise a Nipple, Adam a Giant: Podcast Interview with Author of Paradise Lust (2011)

Lewis Lapham has a podcast out in which he interviews Brook Wilensky-­Lanford, the author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden (Grove Press, 2011). In her book, Wilensky-Lanford examines the attempts by various men and women through history to locate the Garden of Eden.  One … Continue reading

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Ark for sale – on top of a hill

Following the recent earthquakes, business has been a bit grim in Christchurch, and lots of people have been selling up their businesses and properties. But only Ken and Bev Loader are trying to sell their ark. The Press has the story: The … Continue reading

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The Inbetweeners: Like David and Goliath…

The “David and Goliath” metaphor is used (far too often) to describe a clash between a superior force and an unlikely underdog. The metaphor got trotted out again when The Inbetweeners - a low-budget British movie filled with adolescent tit, bum, and … Continue reading

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New Blog: BW16 – Queer Bible Scholarship that’s also Objective

Just days ago, “BW16″ came to the attention of biblical studies bloggers (“bibliobloggers”), with a spirited queer interpretation of the relationship between David and Goliath. If that was not enough to guarantee BW16′s place in the annals of biblioblogging, he … Continue reading

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On The Hogwarts Syllabus

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A (truly sound) Unified Field Theory

Last Monday at the 2011 International Experimental Physics Conference, quantum physicist Dr Hilda Eichhorn announced a truly stunning breakthrough:

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Capitalism IS the Crisis

It isn’t the economy that’s in crisis; the economy is the crisis; it’s not that we can’t get any work, it’s that there’s too much of it; all weighed in, it’s not crisis but growth that’s depressing us. – The … Continue reading

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“There are sound theological weasons …”

Bwahaahahahahahahaha. … aw shit. Stop it, it hurts.

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