World Breast-Feeding Week

It is World Breast-Feeding Week! Wooohoo! It's important to bring awareness of the need of mothers to nurse their babies for as long as they can. In my own children, I can see how much better for them it is, although it's not easy for the moms at all!

So how does the artist that brought you art centered around Suri Cruise's poop and Britney Spears giving birth, naked, on a bearskin rouge celebrate World Breast Feeding week? Well, Daniel Edwards makes a sculpture of Angelina Jole, naked, sitting on a bench, nursing two babies one in each hand. Okay.

Edwards is quoted as saying:

“Hopefully, my sculpture inspires an increase of wet nurses to assist women who have concerns about mastitis, or passing HIV to their infant,” said artist Daniel Edwards in his Connecticut studio where the Jolie statue currently resides.

Okay, so this this is supposed to inspire women everywhere of different races and cultures. They are planning to have variations of the statue with babies of different races. What does it saying to basically cast a white woman as the representative of all women feeding different races of children? It could be my liberal education, but I have problems with the racial overtones of such an image. We can't forget the historicity of such symbols

Here is a video on the making of the statue.


Edwards says that the sculpture is base on the following magazine cover.


Here is some more examples of Edward's art

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Scholar Dan Wallace on Podcast

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Yesterday, Dan Wallace was a guest on James White's Podcast The Dividing Line. Wallace is a scholar and author who studies and teaches about the New Testament. I enjoyed the program and their interaction. Wallace wrote one of the best textbooks for learning Kione Greek, the languages of the New Testament. He is considered an expert in textual criticism and the history behind the New Testament. The most interesting thing about the program I found was watching Dr. James White interacting with a peer. It was fun to hear them actually respond to the ideas and challenges raised by experts who disagree with them like Bart Ehrman. People are mistaken if they think that neither side is aware of the other and don't have good reasons why they hold the views they hold. You can read the blog post where the program is posted here.

Bart Ehrman Lecturing on "Misquoting Jesus"

I've had an opportunity to listen to a debate by Bart Erhman on his book, Misquoting Jesus delivered at Stanford. I realized that although I disagree with his conclusions there are somethings
I can learn from him. Rather than spend my time in this post refuting him (Jame White and William Lane Craig already handled him, i want to focus on something he said. He said that Jesus did not use it. Also when the early church and Jewish scholars used the scriptures this was the translation they were using. You can even tell most often it is this translation that is quoted from in the New Testament. I think that even if Jesus did not speak Greek He could read it. This point knock's Ehrman's argument about Jesus not actually saying the words in John 3 because you can't render them in Aramaic. Maybe Jesus and Nicademus carried on the conversation in Greek. We don't know. Although Ehrman got that part wrong, i learned that I can't just ignore everything he says because the part about Niocademus confusing Jesus' admonition to be "Born from above" with the idea of entering his mother's womb a second time make a lot of sense when you understand that the Greek could be understood either way given the context.

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Here is the video!