Some cool stuff on Galatians is around on the web. First, you can read about all the Galatians papers at SBL 2011 in San Francisco here. Second, the 2012 St. Andrews Conference in Scotland will be about Galatians with speakers including N.T. Wright, Richard Hays, and Oliver O’Donovan, with a call for papers. Read more over here. Third, you have to listen to this fairly awesome 12 minute session by Peter Leithart preaching on Galatians 2:11-14: Read more

Late last night the New York legislator passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. Shortly after the Senate passed the bill, Gov. Cuomo signed it into law. New York becomes the largest state to legalize marriage in the US. The vote in the Senate was split down party lines (33 to 29) with four Republicans joining the Democrat minority to pass the bill. There was one lone Democrat voted against the legislation, Rubén Díaz Sr. of the Bronx. The only... Read more

Find here a link to the audio for the Fresh Look at Mission Conference that took place at St. Philip’s Anglican Church in Sydney. It was a great conference, mainly about Evangelical and Anglican identity, but relevant to everyone thinking about mission and evangelicalism in the modern day. Notable were the talks by Michael Jensen, Greg Clark, and John Dickson. Read more

Over at Bible and Interpretation, Craig Evans has a short article on How Long Were Biblical Manuscripts in Use. The blurb reads: I speculated that if the Gospel of Matthew were published and circulated in 75 CE and if it and some of the first copies of it were in use as long as the manuscripts in the collections and libraries studied by Houston were in use, then some of these manuscripts could still have been in circulation, being read, studied, and... Read more

One powerful element of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Nachfolge (“Discipleship”) is his understanding of necessity of suffering (chapter 4 “Discipleship and the Cross”). True believers must participate in the suffering of Christ. This call to self-denial and suffering is the “hard word of grace” (86). Just as Christ is only Christ as one who suffers and is rejected, so a disciple is a disciple only in suffering and being rejected, thereby participating in crucifixion (85). Suffering becomes the identifying mark of a... Read more

Over at First Things Joe Carter has an excellent article called The Dangerous Mind of Peter Singer. Singer is a well-known ethicist and philosopher who has put forward controversial views concerning infanticide, non-voluntary euthanasia, and even bestiality. He has spent a career justifying what most humans beings would call unjustifiable.  It is his justification for the killing of infants, esp. disabled infants, that truly enrages me. In his Rethinking Life and Death, Singer argues that newborns lack the essential characteristics... Read more

I’ve pulled together all the posts I wrote on Love Wins over the last few months into a document for convenience. In this form it provides something along the lines of a comprehensive review of the book. I hope this will help folks who wish to engage the book. Read more

Over at Christianity Today, there is a preview of Mark Galli’s book God Wins which is a response to Rob Bell’s Love Wins. Read more