Common Denominator

Today is the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his famed 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral, the spark of the Reform...

Dad in middle, Eugene on left (just passed), Maurice on right My Dad would be 93 if he were still with us. I find myself quoting him of...

I've been thinking off and on lately, what would have been the ideal seminary curriculum for me . It would probably look much like the t...

There was almost a month without a blog post, something unheard of. Somehow I feel I will be blogging less. I was on Facebook daily of cours...

Forty years ago now, New Testament studies reached a certain tipping point on the question of how the books of the New Testament might have ...

1. In the creation story of Genesis 1, the Bible repeatedly says that God saw what he created and it was good (Gen. 1:31). This is an import...

1. God is the creator of the universe, of everything that is seen and unseen. Christians believe that God created the universe out of noth...

Thoughts on stages of kingdom diversification: You don't notice you're all the same. You commit to welcome and treat equally any ...

Genesis The Creation 1. "When God began to create the skies and the land, it was formless and empty. Darkness was over the face of th...

"In the beginning, GOD created space and matter. And the matter was formless and unconnected and there was darkness over the face of th...

October 31 marks the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. I'm celebrating it in three ways on this blog: The IWU Monday re...

David Higle and I were exchanging emails about sources on quantum physics and theology. He already knew everything I thought of, especially ...

1. Another year is beginning at IWU. In July they took the word "interim" off my title, so I am the Dean of the School of Theolo...

We still have room for about five more philosophy students in Scott Burson's online course  this fall, which begins September 5. That gi...

Yesterday David Drury pronounced the death of the evangelical movement. However, the goal of his prophetic piece was not to bury it. His wa...

David Drury has written a prophetic piece about the state of the evangelical movement. I copy it here. ___________________________ The Ec...