Common Denominator

Paul's Core Message (1:27-2:30) 1:27 Only conduct your lives worthily of the gospel of the Christ so that, whether I come and see you or...

Seven years ago this morning, the Twin Towers came down and a plane flew into the Pentagon. It was a surreal morning. I thought the person...

I don't know whether I'll do this much, but I'm hoping that the blogosphere will K-O the kind of nonsense ads that usually accom...

Very busy this week--maybe you're enjoying it more because of the absence of long interpretive posts. Somehow we managed for three of ou...

Generally, I have enjoyed watching the Keith Obermann hour on MSNBC. He is a little over the top sometimes on the "liberal" side, ...

The words of the two candidates this year are not drastically different on the subject of energy. Both, for example, are talking about wind ...

I'm taking a break today, a "sabbath" from posting... except for this. Our 2 month old Great Dane was sitting alone on our bac...

Letter Body (1:12-4:20) Paul's Situation (1:12-26) 1:12 Now I want you to know, brothers, that the things having to do with me have come...

To my horror I realized that I scheduled over a chapter of Philippians reading for Monday's Prison Epistles class so that we could spend...

First, let me say that I like John McCain. I sure wish I could have voted for him in 2000. The tone of so much of what I've heard of the...

I was working on classes last night and missed the live performance, but read through the transcript of Sarah Palin's speech this mornin...

I am increasingly pessimistic that I will be able to keep up with my goals to do explanatory notes for the two Bible classes I am teaching t...

I have occasion often to think about the American education system. I have two step-daughters at Marion High School and two children in elem...

So what might a Wesleyan understanding of Scriptural coherence be at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Our discussion has dabbled i...

Somewhere in the middle of this section I passed my word limit. Oh well, I'm sure some of you could easily cut out parts of what I'...

Pre-modern interpretation might find coherence between diverse portions of the Bible in several ways. For example, Origen (ca. 185-254) beli...

After last night's speech by Obama, I didn't think there was any way he could lose the election. Regardless of how he came across to...