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March 31, 2015
The Unbearable Brightness of Light
ON THE UNBEARABLE BRIGHTENESS OF LIGHT Sunrise thru stained glass To see it thru the...
March 30, 2015
Fear Based Thinking vs. Faith Based Thinking
In an age of fear-based thinking, and trust me, since 9/11 America has been binging...
March 29, 2015
Best Books– Part Seven
Obviously, one of the three or four most prolific Biblical scholars in the last half...
March 28, 2015
A Polite Bribe– Post Screening Comments by Hurtado and Witherington
Apologies for a few four letter words from one of the panelists. BW3
March 27, 2015
Learning How to Think Biblically— Part Five
It is not enough to learn how to think Biblically in a general way about...
March 26, 2015
Learning How to Think Biblically– Part Four
The next step in learning how to think Biblically is learning the overarching narrative of...
March 25, 2015
Stephen Colbert on God and Hell
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March 24, 2015
Learning How to Think Biblically— Part Three
Careful, analytical reading of the Bible requires some training. As I say in the book...
March 23, 2015
Finding Jesus– Episode Four (on James)
This show just keeps getting better, and if you missed the episode last night, you...
March 23, 2015
Learning How to Think Biblically– Part Two
Unfortunately, we live in an age of Biblical illiteracy, and the problem is only compounded...
March 22, 2015
Learning How to Think Biblically— Part One
One of the real differences between proper Biblical orthodoxy and cultish behavior is that when...
March 21, 2015
Best Books– Part Six
It's nice to be able to commend some of your contemporaries and their good serious...
March 20, 2015
Suspicion– Part Two
The world of academia is a bit like a circus. There are main acts and...
March 19, 2015
Suspicious Minds
"Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own...
March 18, 2015
Best Books– Part Five
It would be difficult to fully assess in one blog post the work of J.D.G....
March 17, 2015
Best Books– Part Four
I'm often asked why I turned down Oxford, where I had been accepted to do...
March 16, 2015
Best Books– Part Three
Ian Howard Marshall was someone I could identify with quite readily. He was an Evangelical...
March 16, 2015
Jesus’ Genealogy— Were Luke and Matthew on the Same Ancestry Page?
One of the more controversial aspects of the Gospels is the two genealogies we have...
March 15, 2015
Finding Jesus— Episode Three
You may be surprised to hear me say so, but the third episode of Finding...
March 15, 2015
Best Books– Part Two
Towards the end of my college years, I read a book that I really loved,...
March 14, 2015
Second Best— The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
It is, under any circumstances, quite difficult to catch fire twice with the same story...
March 14, 2015
Best Books— Part One
The journey has been a long one for me. It's taken reading several thousand books...
March 13, 2015
Thank God for Professionals!
In honor of my sister's birthday, I pass along this story from alert reader Jim...
March 12, 2015
Snowmaggedon hits Kentucky just before Fat Tuesday
Valentine's weekend. Warm thoughts, cold everything else. Only we were headed to Boston for a...
March 11, 2015
Uncommon Sense– Part Seven
Ah retirement, the desideratum of millions of Americans. And in the culture of entitlement of...
March 10, 2015
Uncommon Sense— Part Six
Well 'its not a matter of life and death'. You hear this all the time...
March 09, 2015
Uncommon Sense– Part Five
"It's just common sense, you're supposed to look out for number one, and for your...
March 08, 2015
Finding Jesus— Episode 2, A Review
On first blush this episode could just as easily been called 'Finding John the Baptizer'....
March 08, 2015
Finding Jesus— Episode 2 Tonight on CNN at 9 P.M.
Here's a little excerpt from the John the Baptist portion of the Finding Jesus series........
March 08, 2015
Our Friend Fred Craddock Has Gone to be with the Lord
Sadly, our friend Fred Craddock, the most masterful of all old Southern preachers,...
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