TGC provides a great video of Rosaria Butterfield, a former Lesbian and LGBT professor, speaking candidly on some of the things Christians just don’t understand about those in the LGBT community. Read more

I post this every year, love it, an Easter Flash mob in Lebanon in 2011 sang an ancient Christian song about the risen Messiah. Read more

++ Glenn Davies gives his 2016 Easter message. Read more

This week at Ridley College, I had the pleasure of preaching three sermons on the Psalms for Holy Week. Everyone who has taken a class with me has drummed into them the three OT texts that are most cited in the NT. And they are Ps 110, 2, and 118. When the early church preached Jesus, their favourite texts to draw on were the Psalms. The Psalms are both “songs of experience” about faith and life, but they are also important for the... Read more

Joseph Blenkinsopp Abraham: The Story of a Life Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015 Available at Amazon.com By Jill Firth Joseph Blenkinsopp is the John A. O’Brien Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Notre Dame. He is well known to theological students for his classic studies on the servants and the servant in Isaiah, but has published more recently on social memory including David Remembered: Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel (Eerdmans, 2013). Abraham: The Story of a Life is... Read more

Over at the Zondervan Blog, Jeremy Bouma gives a summary of my take on Rom 3:21-31 from my Romans commentary under the heading “Gracism.” He closes with this: Bird introduces a theological neologism here, insisting Paul is ruling out ethnocentric nomism, “the view that you have to become a Jew in order to be a Christian, where salvation is by performance of the law and limited to people of the law.” (121) Instead, Paul dismisses both merited grace and ethnocentric... Read more

Below is an interview between Eerdmans and D.A. Carson on the new book The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scripture, and its quite an interesting Q&A about several topics related to Scripture and Inerrancy. Carson is great to listen to here. And, irrespective of your position on Scripture’s truthfulness, this sounds like a book worth getting hold on.   Read more

I’m habitually reading back over N.T. Wright’s beast PFG and you keep getting hit with these dazzling quotes, like these: What Paul has done (or what someone else has done, which Paul is here quoting) is [in Cor 8:6] to separate out theos and kyrios, ‘God’ and ‘lord’, in the original prayer [of Deut 6:4], adding brief explanations: ‘God’ is glossed with ‘the father’, with the further phrase about God as source and goal of everything, ourselves included, and ‘lord’ is glossed... Read more

Eric Metaxas, bestselling author of biographies on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and William Wilberforce will be touring Australia in April on his Fearless tour. See dates and details here. Does faith still have a role to play in public life? In these uncertain times we can draw hope and courage from the fearless conviction of Christian heroes who have been motivated by faith in God to shape their societies for good. I also recommend watching his testimony of how he came to faith in... Read more

Here is a great video by my good friend Dr. Brant Pitre on the Jewish context of Jesus’ Last Supper: Read more