Boldly professing the obvious since 2009
My wife and I make a practice of reading together every night before we go to bed. We’ve recently been going through the autobiography of George Müller—the guy who built several orphanages despite having no paycheck, never directly asking for money, and never going into debt—and I thought there were a couple passages worth noting [...] Read more »
My recent series “A Civil War Between the Church and the Gay Community?” (Part One, Two, and Three) has involved a discussion of the church’s relationship to the state, with some special attention paid to the current debates over homosexuality and marriage. During that discussion, I made the assertion that when the church that looks [...] Read more »
In the spirit of today’s holiday in honor of one of the greatest men of the twentieth century, I thought it might be good to post a few brief quotes from Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written April 16, 1963. These words are no less powerful (and needed) today than they were when [...] Read more »
Not many get to be (or want to be) a biblical scholar, but lots of people want to read and understand the Bible well. What must one do to become a good Bible reader? J. R. Daniel Kirk gives exactly the answer that I have made into a mantra the last few years: Learn how [...] Read more »
I’m way late to the game on this (thanks to being busy with my real work and falling behind on my feeds), but it’s still worth posting: John Anderson has posted a wonderful interview with Duke NT professor Richard Hays, where Hays gives a lot of details about his background and influences. As a followup, [...] Read more »