Over at The Guardian, is an article by Adam Brereton on My Local ‘Atheist Church’ is Part of the Long, Inglorious March of Gentrification, which is a great read. I loved this line: What religion remains in inner-city areas tends to be docile, and is often relegated to caring for the surplus human waste – the homeless and unemployed – that gentrification produces. I can’t see the Sunday Assembly, despite its motto of “livebetter, help often, wonder more”, performing even... Read more

The “christology wars” are already hitting the media circuit with articles on Ehrman’s book and ours featured at RNS on “Was Jesus Divine?” and the Huffington Post on how Ehrman’s book has been “instantly rebutted”. The RNS says: The two books are an unusual publishing experiment, in which HarperCollins arranged to have a team of evangelical scholars write a counterargument to its hot-selling superstar writer. Ehrman and the evangelical team exchanged manuscripts and signed nondisclosure agreements so as not to pre-empt each... Read more

Here is a great video where Dr. Craig Evans talks about our response to Bart Ehrman on Jesus’ divinity and Jesus’ resurrection. Read more

I was very pleased to hear that How God Became Jesus received endorsements from Richard Bauckham and Larry Hurtado, which is kinda cool to the max. Too late to go on the dust cover, but definitely going into the publicity materials. “This is a helpful collection of essays by first-rate scholars abreast of the latest research. Anyone who wants a reliable historical account of how early Christians came to see Jesus as God should read this book.” —Richard Bauckham, Emeritus Professor of... Read more

Craig Blomberg’s new book Can We Still Believe the Bible? An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2014) is about to be released. As part of the Brazos blog tour, I’m been assigned to comment on chapter four, “Don’t These Issues Rule Out Biblical Inerrancy?” In the first three chapters, Blomberg addresses controversial issues related to the textual integrity of the Bible (chapter 1), the canonization of the Bible (chapter 2), and reliability of modern Bible translations (chapter 3). He gives... Read more

I had the privilege of spending a week in Bellingham, WA with Logos Bible Software a few weeks ago filming a course on the Gospel of John for their new Mobile Ed. program. Before the invitation to participate in their program I had little experience or exposure to Logos. The whole thing has been something of an orientation. And I have to say, I am very impressed. I had the opportunity to meet people from the company from the very... Read more

This week I posted on Facebook that I have taken a view, finally (!), on the meaning of Pistis Christou. That’s what happens when you write a commentary on Galatians. Arm chair opinions aren’t adequate. Most of you will know its the much talked about Pauline phrase especially found in Galatians (2:16 [2x], 2:20, and 3:22; also its in Rom. 3:22, 26 and Phil. 3:9 and possibly Eph. 3:12). My blog mate and Preston Sprinkle have edited a good book... Read more

I came across this on twitter the other day and I think its hilarious Let the record show that I did not create it or commission it, I’m just laughing at it. And I’ve never said that all of Ehrman’s arguments are based on bad history … just some of them. But this is funny! Don’t forget that HGBJ releases in three days time on 25 March 2014.   Read more

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson From Times Square to Timbuktu: the Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013. Available at Amazon.com Reviewed by Charlie Fletcher, Dean of Global Mission at Ridley Melbourne Mission & Ministry College Wesley Granberg-Michaelson offers a fresh contribution to the growing list of works that seek to help Western Christians come to terms with the changing shape of global Christianity and its implications. The demographic shift occurring in global Christianity has already been well documented by... Read more

Much more is happening on the biblioblogosphere for the Leon Morris centenary. Eerdword will be featuring several blog posts in the future about Leon Morris and they recently announced a give away of Leon Morris’ book The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross. FYI, you shouldn’t need to win it cause you should already own it, if you don’t, then buy it! Zondervan’s Koinonia blog also has their own tribute to Leon Morris with a great excerpt from his NT Theology. Over... Read more