Common Denominator

My old seminary friend James Gibson has tagged me with a book meme . I am supposed to pick up the nearest book, turn to page 123, find the...

Philip Jenkins is on the IWU campus today and tomorrow for our colloquium and various other activities. Jenkins teaches at Penn State and i...

I'm writing, not blogging, this week, but that doesn't stop me from posting some thoughts. I was describing Paul and the Law to a R...

I thought this piece was interesting, since it relates to some things I pondered during the election season.

If you have a background similar to mine, you'll have heard the idea of preaching against sin. It is a commonplace, "People are af...

As I wander weak and weary through my house, I wandered through a room where several of my children were watching the recent Get Smart DVD. ...

In one final preparatory effort for SBL next week, I made a visit this weekend to the research library at Notre Dame to fill in some footnot...

1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. And if I live in the flesh, this [brings] the fruit of a good work, and which I will c...

It is pretty clear that passing Proposition 8 in California has led many to repent of their sins and will draw an increasing number to Chris...

You've heard it all before--why do we need all these commentaries? It's the same question people in the pew ask about Bible transla...

I found out today that my parents' home church in Lakeland, Florida no longer has a food pantry for the homeless, the poor, and the need...

I have found Margaret Thrall's interpretation of 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 quite exemplary, from her commentary in the ICC (International Cr...

I suspect this will seem like a strange post, but I'm working on something. My main question of the text of Romans 5-8 is whether Paul s...

For most of Christian history, Christians have been optimistic about the future here on earth. In his book The City of God , Augustine (400...

So what does the Bible actually teach about the age to come? In its original meaning, the Old Testament has almost nothing to say on the top...

I did a brief review of a new book by Kristina LaCelle-Peterson, professor at Houghton College in New York: Liberating Tradition: Women'...

One of the key elements of the Darby-Lindsey-LaHaye end times scheme is a 7 year "Tribulation." Dispensationalists then divide up ...

Honor to those who are veterans today, thanks to those who honorably serve in the defense of their people and in defense of the weak in the ...

James McGrath , fellow Dunnite and the biblioblogger king of the hill for the month of October, professor of religion at Butler University,...

I'm continuing through Robert Webber's The Younger Evangelicals: Facing the Challenges of the New World . I'm finding it an incr...