New Testament

Blogs
June 10, 2013
"Y'all are the Light of the World": A Dallas Professor Translates the Bible Into Texan
According to Wycliffe, the global authority of Bible translation, the complete scriptures have been rendered in some 518 languages and dialects as of 2012. There's a Bible in every language you can name, plus hundreds that you can't. Speakers of Esperanto have their own version, and Klingons soon ma ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2013
A Dallas Church is Having Trouble Firing Its Allegedly Lying, Thieving, Pot-Smoking Pastor
The trustees of 92-year-old Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church in South Dallas realized they'd made a mistake almost as soon as they'd hired Calvin Wayne Thomas to tend their flock. His first sin was a minor one, coming during an early meeting to discuss church business that Thomas presided over ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2013
Will the Real Jesus Please Rise Up and Kick John Wiley Price in the Junk?
They say the devil can quote scripture as well as the righteous, which helps explain the confusion sown by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, who whipped out his New Testament this week and rained thunder down on Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles. Price is burni ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2013
Vonciel Hill: City Council Member, Prophet, Theologian and Sell-Out
This is a little embarrassing. Nobody wants to say it. It's sort of rude, I guess. Uh-oh. Sounds like my job. OK. Here goes. Dallas City Council member Vonciel Hill is a mean-spirited, spiteful suck-up to the rich who is also increasingly unhinged. Ugly-talking. And way over the top out of bounds ... More >>
Film
October 4, 2012
The Revisionaries Explores the Texas Board of Education's Fight Against Science, History
Culture
July 26, 2012
The Long and Short of FIT
New plays feel long and come up short on ideas at ongoing FIT fest.
Calendar
June 28, 2012
I See Dead Scrolls
Calendar
August 11, 2011
An Exhibition of Biblical Proportions
Blogs
April 4, 2011
Why Mohamed Elhassan, the Dallas Imam Who Played Defense Attorney in Quran-Torching Church, Says He "Admires" Terry Jones
Mohamed Elhassan, a Sufi imam and business owner here in Dallas, lost his case for the Koran last month in Terry Jones' Florida church.When Florida pastor Terry Jones finally made good on the threat he'd been toying with in the press for months, to burn a Quran in his church, it set off days of dead ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
A Retreat From the Screech of Dissonant Days, or: My Rabbi Says To Knock Off the Blogging
Rabbi David SternRan into my rabbi last Sunday -- David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear -- and asked him: "You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I'd like to post to Unfair Park." He grinned and said sure -- grinned, I'm sure, because it w ... More >>
News
September 2, 2010
First Baptist's Robert Jeffress Won't Be Winning Muslim Converts This Way.
News
September 8, 2005
The Big Squeeze
Thinking about taking out a payday loan? Think again, sucker.