The Anvil of God

Last updated on: January 30, 2019 at 10:48 pm By Ben Witherington

Another fine cartoon by my friend Mark Frontczak….. Read more

Paul and the Rhetoric of Evangelism

Last updated on: January 29, 2019 at 5:26 pm By Ben Witherington

Elliot Arthur Witherington has Entered the Building

Last updated on: January 23, 2019 at 11:50 am By Ben Witherington

Happy Valentines to us all! BW3 Read more

Your Image of God is Too Small

Last updated on: January 24, 2019 at 2:31 pm By Ben Witherington

Seek and Ye Shall Find

Last updated on: January 24, 2019 at 2:30 pm By Ben Witherington

Certified Perfect Sleep for Parents of Little Ones

Last updated on: January 24, 2019 at 2:28 pm By Ben Witherington

Here and in the next two posts, we will be celebrating the cartoons of Christian cartoonist Mark Frontczak, with his permission of course! BW3 Read more

Attn. Coffee Lovers– You are not allowed to be Climate Change Deniers

Last updated on: January 20, 2019 at 1:51 pm By Ben Witherington

As a former coffee shop owner and coffee snob, I’m here to report some alarming news. Of 124 distinct types of naturally grown wild coffee, 75 are in danger of extinction thanks to: 1) climate change, and 2) deforestation, and 3) pests attacking sickly bushes and trees in the area (caused in part by the pollution weakening the bushes and trees natural resistances). A detailed study in Science Advances has shown this to be a fact, and if we allow... Read more

The Roof— The Beatles Last Concert

Last updated on: January 19, 2019 at 3:32 pm By Ben Witherington

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x13rmt9 On any given day, you can go to the Itunes store online and find out what the top 10 or so downloads of the day are. Alas, on those same days rock n’ roll is largely notable only for its absence. Or you can go and look at the Grammy nominations for 2019 for best album, best new artist, etc and once again rock n’roll is MIA. Larry Norman said it long ago ‘rock n’roll may not be dead,... Read more

Martyrs and the Book of Revelation

Last updated on: January 16, 2019 at 8:27 am By Ben Witherington

Here’s another interesting post by my friend Larry Hurtado—- see what you think. BW3 Martyrs/Martyrdom in Early Christianity: Paul Middleton’s Contributions by larryhurtado It’s always a pleasure to see one’s former PhD students making their own contributions to scholarship, and one of my most productive former students in Paul Middleton, now Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the University of Chester. From his PhD thesis completed here in Edinburgh onward (published as Radical Martyrdom and Cosmic Conflict in... Read more

Phillis Wheatley and Slavery in the Bible

Last updated on: January 15, 2019 at 9:19 am By Ben Witherington

Whilst reading an excellent recent article by Thomas Kidd on the Gospel Coalition website about the famous African American poet of the 18th century, Phillis Wheatley (https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/phillis-wheatley-evangelical-first-published-african-american-female-poet/ ) I was reminded of how often people have badly misread the Bible in regard to the issue of slavery. First of all, slavery is of course reported and described as an extant, even pervasive fact of ANE and Greco-Roman life. The first and most important point to make about this is that... Read more