Thanks to Daniel Kirk for this excellent post: Dear NT Intro students, Our quarter will be kicking off in a couple of weeks. I love the process of digging into the New Testament texts with students–you bring a passionate commitment to living out the Jesus story that is too often missing in the halls of [...]

… about Pat Robertson’s recent remarks. And we call on Pat Robertson to re-think what he said, take back his words, and apologize. This week on his television show Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said a man would be morally justified to divorce his wife with Alzheimer’s disease in order to marry another woman. The dementia-riddled wife [...]

This post is by Joe Canner, a regular commenter on this blog, and he is taking on a new book that examines why we had the economic meltdown of 2008. Chapter 7 of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner begins with the repeal [...]