A lovely video about Christmas from Bethlehem Read more

On Christmas Day and Boxing Day, Zondervan will release three ebooks about women and ministry from their series Fresh Perspectives on Women in Ministry. All for just $2.99. If all your family brought you for Christmas was a pair of dish washing gloves, a left behind novel, and some cigarette flavored ice-cream, then make up for it by buying yourself one of these books: Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Bobby Hair Cuts: A Case for Gender Equality in Ministry Michael... Read more

Knox Seminary in Florida has a new D.Min in Theological Exegesis. The rationale for the program is: In recent years the world of biblical and theological scholarship has focused on one issue with fervor equal to and seemingly greater than any other: “theological interpretation of Scripture” or “theological exegesis.” Fed up with the sterile scholarship of much modern biblical criticism and concerned by the lack of biblical engagement in so much Christian faith and practice, men and women from a... Read more

Over at WSJ, Andy Crouch has a piece on Make Way for the Metro-Evangelical, which describes the pivot by church leaders like Tim Keller and Mark Driscoll towards inner city church planting. Christianity Today even has a series of videos on them called This is our City. However, Keith Miller at Mere Orthodoxy asks, Are the Metro-Evangelicals Right? Miller comments: Yet there is a timbre amidst all of this city-centrism that troubles me. Maybe this is because the metro-evangelicals are not counter-cultural, but rather... Read more

Whereas America is focused on its fiscal cliff and the possibility of an economic recession, over in a NT Times piece, John Dickerson predicts the coming Evangelical Recession in America. IT hasn’t been a good year for evangelicals. I should know. I’m one of them. In 2012 we witnessed a collapse in American evangelicalism. The old religious right largely failed to affect the Republican primaries, much less the presidential election. Last month, Americans voted in favor of same-sex marriage in... Read more

Brian Rosner, principal of Ridley Melbourne, has a piece in The Australian (available also here), where he asks what is the best thing we can do for kids at Christmas based on their greatest need. He writes: What is the best love of the child? That is the question posed by a multidisciplinary book edited by Timothy Jackson with contributions from history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, law and Christian thought. The startling thesis of the book is that the right of... Read more

Over at the Premier Christian Radio show Unbelievable, Justin Brierly (the most handsome radio host I know), has a great show featuring Richard Carrier and Mark Goodacre on Did Jesus Exist? Worth a listen! Read more

One of the most prolific authors in North American evangelicalism, and one I greatly admire, is Prof. D.A. Carson (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School).  Andy Naselli points to Carson’s Three Secrets to Productivity and Godly Efficiency. Worth reading for those who want to get the most out of their day. Read more

A new Bible series is coming out and from the clip it looks rather awesome. HT: Mark Goodacre Read more

The good folks at Bible works have a 12 days of Christmas special with an ESV Study Bible given away with every purchase of BW9. Read more