Over at Unbelievable Justin Brierly talks to both Simon Gathercole and Bart Ehrman about Jesus’ divinity. Listen to part one here. Read more

Neil Bach’s lecture about the life, scholarship, and ministry of Leon Morris is now available in audio here. A very good lecture to listen to! Read more

I’m hoping to soon start working on a short NT Theology for IVP. I’ve toyed with many ideas on how to go about it. The normal way to go is book by book or corpus by corpus (Thielman; Marshall), or a historical origins approach (Morris), whereas others  go for common themes (Guthrie; Schreiner) How does one set-up a NT theology if one is equally concerned with critical issues and canonical setting? Several big questions emerge: Examine the books in historical order,... Read more

Glad that Wright’s lectures at the HBU conference on Paul and Israel is available on you.tube! Paul in his Jewish World Israel in Pauline Theology HT: Brian LePort Read more

David R. Nienhuis & Robert W. Wall Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John & Jude as Scripture: The Shaping & Shape of A Canonical Collection Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013. Available at Amazon.com People write about the theology of the  four gospels (tetraevangelium) and the Pauline corpus (Paulinium) so why not also the Catholic letters (Apostolos)? Glad to say that Nienhuis and Wall have a tackle at it in this book in a largely synchronic reading of the Catholic... Read more

Craig Evans does a superb job on the Canadian Talkshow 100 Huntley Street speaking to Jerry Johnston. I’m a bit envious, I’d love to be the NY version of 100 Huntley Street with Eric Metaxas, maybe one day! Read more

Glad to see that my ebook on women in ministry is now available in paperback! Available for pre-order form Zondervan. Only $7.99   Read more

Over at BibleGateway is a interview I did with Emily Varner about Bart Ehrman, Jesus’ divinity, and the New Testament. Here’s a teaser: EV: How would you respond if someone said, “Doesn’t this discussion just boil down to faith (‘just trust the church teaching’) or respect for the Bible (‘the Bible says it, that settles it’)”? MB: Well, yes, in one sense, you either believe the church’s testimony or you don’t. The important question is, however, what does the church’s testimony about... Read more

Over at ABC Religion and Ethics is a great piece on The Role of Churches in the Ukrainian Revolution, with insights about both the Ukrainian and Russian churches. Apparently the Russians really don’t like the Greek Catholic Russians: This mixed identity of Ukraine has horrified the Russian Empire for a long time, which prohibited the Uniate Church in Belarus during the era of Tsar Nicholas I, and then in the Soviet Union. President Vladimir Putin’s diatribe in Brussels on 28 January against... Read more

Over at Koinonia, Jeremy Bouma has a good post on why we should engage Bart Ehrman on christology as well as a good summary of our book in response to Ehrman. Read more