Common Denominator

I received a desk copy of the long anticipated Inductive Bible Study , the updated and expanded version of the late Robert Traina's earl...

Over the course of the summer, I hope to work through the new Common English Bible (CEB) translation of Hebrews, as well as the notes for th...

From Jimmy Kimmel Live:

I'm not really into the royal wedding.  I'm sure I'll see it tomorrow morning because my wife Angela will watch it.  I was watch...

Given that no one has ever asked any other president to produce his birth certificate, is it really possible to explain the birther phenomen...

I don't know if I'll get around to reviewing Rob Bell's controversial book Love Wins . As most of you probably know, he's ac...

What do you make of this quote? "The Protestant Reformation rejected allegorical interpretation because allegory had allowed the medi...

Michael Bird pointed out this post 12 Ways to Make Arminianism Cool by Rachel Held Evans. ;-)

I received notice several weeks ago that my application to do a Fulbright in Germany this Fall had been approved by the Fulbright Commission...

In my opinion, whether you believe in the resurrection of Jesus boils down to one thing: do you believe resurrections can happen?  If you do...

Spent the better part of the day with a group of friends laying out the scope and sequence of the final praxis course of our MDIV curriculum...

As mentioned in yesterday's post , Jesus' last supper and time in the Garden of Gethsemane were really the beginning of Friday by Je...

Indiana Wesleyan University is hosting a conference on campus, June 27-29, on the question of how faith and science should or might co-exist...

It is of course incorrect to say Thursday Last Supper.  The supper happened after dark and thus was at the beginning of Friday.  In Matthew,...

In Mark's presentation, Jesus seems to stay in Bethany on Wednesday.  Probably he has stirred up a hornet's nest in Jerusalem.  Perh...

I know few of you are interested in my thoughts on economics or the budget--and it is especially a shame to speak of such things in the midd...

Mark presents Tuesday as a day of controversy, a day when Jesus gets into debates with various parties.  Matthew and Luke--which seem to use...

In Mark's chronology (chap. 11), Jesus enters Jerusalem on Sunday, looks around, then returns to Bethany.  On Monday, then, he returns t...

I wish you all a meaningful day of reflecting on the day Jesus entered Jerusalem in his final days!  I don't have time for a full post, ...