Common Denominator

I just finished teaching New Testament Survey for May term. Keith Drury has eternally served as a goad to make it relevant to students requi...

One of the things that you either love or hate about my classes are the tangents. I consider them relevant most of the time--they are often ...

One potential inconsistency in evangelical hermeneutics is that it differs from New Testament hermeneutics. So evangelical hermeneutics, fol...

For the last part of the Inductive Bible Studies class this semester, we have gone through the final chapters of Duvall and Hays, which deal...

As final exams approach, I wrote out for a class something like what I would have written for the short answer questions on a previous exam....

With one more class to go, we looked briefly at the genre of Old Testament Law in Inductive Bible Study today. The textbook, Hays and Duvall...

Had an interesting conversation with a student yesterday afternoon. He's doing the word study for his final exegesis project on the Gree...

Today in 1 Corinthians we read through chapters 12 and 13 together. I enjoyed it much (although I've decided that yesterday was the low...

We discussed Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism a bit today. Pointed out that he had his body stuffed to be present at U of London board mee...

In Greek Bible, Romans, today, we read Romans 9, as well as the last part of chapter 8. The primary goal was to improve our skills at readin...

Today in Inductive Bible Study class we were discussing different approaches to Bible translations and deciding what the original manuscript...

We started ethics today in philosophy. Here are some of the distinctions I presented to give greater precision to the way we talk about thes...

I think I'm going to start a new category called classroom snippets. The title will make them easy to look for or skip over as desired. ...