TVWeek.com: Discovery Channel Reported to be Downplaying "Lost Tomb of Jesus" Documentary

“Discovery Channel’s controversial James Cameron-produced documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” drew the largest audience for the network in more than a year on Sunday night, but the network has taken several recent steps to downplay the project.

Departing from normal procedures, the cable network didn’t tout its big ratings win. The network also scheduled a last-minute special that harshly criticized its own documentary, has yanked a planned repeat of “Tomb” and has not put the documentary on its video-on-demand server.”

– read the entire article

Other material relevant to the Talpiot Tomb:

• The “Jesus Tomb” Resource Page
  
  
• The “Jesus Family Tomb” Roundup

• The “Jesus Tomb” – A Call for Perspective

(I know I’m on hiatus, but this seemed too interesting not to post).

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time for a break

emergesque will be dark for a bit – not sure how long.

very busy, some unusual stresses, and I need to refocus and recenter. I’m lost in too many things but Him.

blessings,

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joe carter in the washington post

The post profiles joe carter of evangelical outpost in a piece on Bioethics.

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"Episcopal Bishops Reject Ultimatum"

Episcopal bishops risked losing their place in the global Anglican family Wednesday by affirming their support for gays and rejecting a key demand that they give up some authority to theological conservatives outside the U.S. church.In strong and direct language, the Episcopal House of Bishops said it views the Gospel as teaching that “all God’s children, including gay and lesbian persons, are full and equal participants” in the church. The bishops also said they would not agree to an Anglican plan for leaders outside the U.S. denomination to oversee the small number of conservative American dioceses that disagree.

– full ap story

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so wild it must be true

the david crowder band meets ted nugent.

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a "final" comment on "the lost tomb of jesus" from darrell bock

I am now back in Dallas. Things appear to be settling down on the tomb front. No real new information or responses to report.

The process of public vetting seems to be playing itself out. We are in a time when such disclosures directly to the public mean that the public will have to allow the public vetting process to take place before embracing or rejecting such directly made claims. What iis so interesting about this particular example is the near unanimity that this claim has little substance to it, given that there are so many points in the linkage to get to the conclusion that are suspect.

I shall continue to keep my eyes and ears open, but the verdict on this one seems to have been quite negative. If so, it may show that public vetting over blogs and the Net can work, even though it is not the best way to go about this kind of discussion.

– from dr. darrell bock

Other material relevant to the Talpiot Tomb:

• The “Jesus Tomb” Resource Page
  
  
• The “Jesus Family Tomb” Roundup

• The “Jesus Tomb” – A Call for Perspective

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Darrell Bock in Interviews with Key "Jesus Family Tomb" Figures

…Amos Kloner, who “teaches at Hebrew University and was a key figure in the Israeli Antiquities Authority oversaw the original excavation of the site”

and

…Stephen Pfann, who “helped identify the inscriptions on the Lost Tomb documentary.”

– link to interviews

Other material relevant to the Talpiot Tomb:

• The “Jesus Tomb” Resource Page
  
  
• The “Jesus Family Tomb” Roundup

• The “Jesus Tomb” – A Call for Perspective

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New Album from David Crowder Band

Looks like the boys are about to record a new album.

pic from jesusfreakhideout.com

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The Broadening of the Evangelical Christian Political Agenda

EJ Dionne writes a column commenting on the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) recent pushback when James Dobson and others called for the ousting of the NAE’s VP of Government Affairs – Rich Cizik.

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Episcopal Church Rejects Election of a South Carolina Bishop

It speaks volumes that a double standard is used for conservatives, and it is further evidence that conservatives are not leaving, they’re being driven out of the Episcopal Church.

– Dr. Kendall S Harmon in the Washington Post after Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori informed the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina that she had declared their September 2006 election of Rev. Mark Lawrence null and void.

Also see the statement by the Rev. J. Haden McCormick who is
President of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina

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