What’s New!

26 July 2008: Would you have had a stronger belief in the resurrection if you had been there?
29 April 2008: I updated the information about altar linens to make it clearer how to set up the altar for worship. I also updated information about vestments to explain their origins and symbolism.
31 March 2008: I have finished my long and hard project to convert all my dynamic pages to PHP. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry. It just means I’ve been busy doing hard stuff. I have also added What if the Resurrection Really Happened?
12 November 2007: I expanded the entry on the historic floor plan of a church. I aded an explanation of the origin of that floor plan, which is simultaneously an explanation of a New Testament house church. I also added entries for altar, baptistery, Communion table, icon, and iconostasis.
17 October 2007: I made a small correction to How I Would Choose a Church and expanded How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?
16 October 2007: A reader alerted me to the liturgical use of blue in the Lutheran Church, and even cited a book that I have in my own library. (Whoops!) I corrected the information on the liturgical use of blue.
11 September 2007: I modified How I Would Choose a Church to contain criteria about the church’s programs, amenities, and worship.
7 September 2007: I added The Outrage of Accepting Unacceptable People.
29 July 2007: I have changed all the ASPX pages in the lectionary section to PHP. If you are a web master, and you link to any of those pages, please update your link.
15 July 2007: Some kind soul out pointed out that the ending to What Happens to Me When I Die? was incomplete. I repaired it.
17 June 2007: I have changed my start page from ASP.NET to PHP. There are a couple of reasons for this: First, Microsoft rapidly went from version 1.1 to 2.0 to 3.0, and I can't keep up. My web-presence provider only supports version 1.1, but Windows Vista can’t compile it. Second, as a result of my experience as a Vista beta tester, I'm switching to Apple Macintosh. ’Nuff said. Third, ASP.NET limits me to Windows servers; PHP works on all servers.
If all that went over your head, don’t worry about it. However, if you are a web master, and you have a link to a page ending in .aspx, it will evenutally change to .php. The process will be slow, but keep an eye out!
14 June 2007: I have reformatted the Bobo stories; the first major make-over those episodes have received since 1996.
18 April 2007: I posted Marcion Lives On! which explains the best intentions can lead to self-defeating collateral damage when we interpret the Bible too hastily.
17 April 2007: Someone asked me for steps for becoming a Christian. I gave it some thought, and came up with How to Become a Christian.
26 February 2007: I have been very busy updating pages, doing general web-site housecleaning, and I've added an RSS feed.