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One of the assignments in the seminary's MA Biblical Interpretation course is to identify what kind of midrash Hebrews 7 is. The three p...

Charlie Crist, as everyone will know, has gone independent in Florida. The political climate can change so quickly, who knows if the curren...

Chris Bounds put me on to John Wesley's sermon, "The End (or purpose) of Christ's Coming" as a good place to see his break...

The "original meaning scholar" inside of me always cringes a little when I read about Moses' relationship with God... or David...

I'm beginning to grade position papers for my Hebrews class, probably the last undergraduate class I will teach at IWU for the foreseeab...

I'll add my post to the many announcing that N. T. Wright is headed to St. Andrews, leaving his role as the Bishop of Durham. The annou...

... the newest hire at Wesley Seminary @IWU. For a proper introduction, see today's post on the seminary Dean's blog .

I seem insufferably unable to write something on Descartes and the soul . I don't know what's wrong with me. Here is an attempt. ___...

I have permission to post the final piece that I was working on when I posted this on Wesley and Romans. Here it is: _________ Introduction...

John Drury had an excellent probing of a post I did yesterday. I tend to emphasize the distinction between earlier meanings of biblical text...

I don't know if it's helpful to you (you can tell me), but nice little ditty came to mind this week to try to explain the difference...

Unfortunately I missed the Wheaton conference on N. T. Wright last week. There are some good reviews out there, particularly by Nijay Gupta...

Three times this morning I found myself giving feedback to students along the lines of "I would be very happy if by the time you gradua...

Thought I'd preserve some thoughts here in dialog with "Once a Wesleyan." We've had this discussion before, but I put my t...

Final installment of the piece... ___________ So Paul certainly wanted his Jewish and Gentile audiences to conclude that the Gentiles did no...

Paul mentions several functions that the Jewish Law had in the story of salvation. One is that it informed Jews of exactly what God’s expect...

Take 2 (for Take 1, click here ): _________ Introduction Romans 3:31 is one of those verses that sounds so strange to us that we are prone t...

Working on another small writing assignment. When what I had in mind as the first section hit 500 words (a little less than half the allotte...

Activism is one of David Bebbington's 4 pillars of evangelicalism. Of course, as a Wesleyan, I'm not too bothered whether we are ...

Woke up to an article on the history textbooks in Texas in Inside Higher Ed . Here are some excerpts from the article: "About 800 colle...