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More of my "original meaning" translation of Romans: Romans 1:1-7 Romans 1:8-10 ___________ Romans 1:11-15 11 For I desire to...

How's this for a text box on pacifism in a philosophy textbook? __________ A pacifist is someone who believes violence is wrong in ev...

After one too many episodes of Law and Order , I continue to be frustrated with the way our system enables those who are found not guilty be...

An "original meaning" translation I'm doing as I write a Bible study on Romans 1-8. Romans 1:1-7 Romans 1:8-10 8 First, on...

Rev. Joanne Lyon, current head of the Wesleyan Church, met a couple weeks ago with the faculty and administration of our seminary and we dis...

We are now a year and a half into Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University and I thought I would give an update since I haven't re...

More material for a class.  Feedback welcome. ____________ The central part of the Scriptural story, the central part of the Christian sto...

I thought this was posted somewhere here, but I didn't find it in a search or on my sidebar.  This is a piece I wrote once upon a time. ...

Someone asked... here's a position piece edited from a previous post. ____________ Before we say anything else, it is important to poi...

To be sung to the tune of "This Is My Father's World," about 30 seconds after take-off: There is nothing I can do, To keep ...

Kyle Ray in effect asked me at The Gathering to stop waffling and endorse a translation for the pew.  I continue to struggle but I'm try...

I was sitting in a Greek pub here in Ontario, Canada--about a mile and a half from my lodgings and chomping on a gyro--when the news said it...

... two seconds to Christ. I was thinking last night that a lot of us are not far from the right attitudes and choices.  We humans tend to...

This is my continued attempt to express what it might mean to read New Testament letters as Christian Scripture. ___________ If what you r...

Feedback welcome on this background to an assignment. ______________ Although we do it all the time, the way in which Christians dance bet...

I didn't pay much attention to the quote until Reince Priebus was elected Chairman of the Republican Party today.  Maybe you've hear...

I don't know if we'll ever rescue all the instructional videos I've done.  Argh!  I don't know if I ever did one on the text...

I was listening to a piece on NPR about a move to introduce some sort of code of ethics into the guild of economists.  Many economists resis...

Wesleyan Publishing House had the great idea of publishing Bible studies along with my two books on Paul.  So   a Bible study group might wo...

I was reflecting on the tactic of killing off someone because you want to disempower their ideas.  We possibly saw this yesterday in Arizona...