As this year’s convention season approaches I have my annual list of tips of things to do, see, and look out for! ETS Bring  your Donald Trump hat, sweater, and badges and get a 20% discount at the B&H book exhibit. Attend the book review session on Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church wearing a rainbow sash and a Bernie Sanders badge and I will give you a free copy of one of my books. It is Michael... Read more

Stephen Wright Jesus the Storyteller London: SPCK, 2014. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2015. Available at Amazon.com. By Chris Porter The area of parables research has been an ongoing area of interest for many scholars seeking to see the thought world behind the Synoptics, and also highlight some more of the picture of Jesus as portrayed in these gospels. After a lengthy prolegomena and substantive literature review, Stephen Wright picks up on much of this prior research, but seeks to... Read more

Dear America, it is over, like it or not Donald Trump is your new president, but at least the malicious campaign season is over. Now at the moment I know you all probably feel like you’ve just woken up from a bad dream with a hang-over that could kill a small child. If that is how you feel, I have something for you. SBL executive director John Kutsko put me onto a great book called Confident Pluralism by John Inazu and... Read more

My good friend Jason Hood (Gordon-Conwell) has a great article at CT on God is King, No Matter What. A nice read ahead of the coming US election day. Seen from the throne room, Election Day and Inauguration Day are opportunities to remember the unelected King, regardless of whether they produce the outcome we desire. The only inauguration that ultimately matters occurred 2,000 years ago, when the Emperor of the cosmos showed up in the flesh to launch an Empire... Read more

Sale Right now, every NIV Application Commentary eBook is just $4.99. See the deals here. About NIV Application Commentaries The value of the NIVAC series is two-fold: you will understand the Bible’s ancient message, and see how it speaks powerfully today. This series features the work of many world-class scholars, including: Douglas J. Moo on Romans John H. Walton on Genesis and Job Craig L. Blomberg on 1 Corinthians Ajith Fernando on Acts Daniel I. Block on Deuteronomy Craig Keener... Read more

Garwood P. Anderson Paul’s New Perspective: Charting a Soteriological Journey Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2016. Available at Amazon.com Back in 2007 I wrote a book called The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies in Paul, Justification, and the New Perspective, where I tried to bring some sanity and sobriety to what was then some very fractious debates about Paul and the New Perspective, plotting a via media if you like. Written as an in-house Reformed debate, I was trying to show how... Read more

Anyone remember the Bibliotheca Bible project that raised over a million bucks on kickstarter? Well, it is finished and soon ready for purchase.  Read about it on CT. But don’t forget my own niche Bible, the Biblica Hipsteria, which you can learn about below: Read more

I have to say that Russell Moore is now officially #2 in my list of favourite Southern Baptists (Timothy George is still locked in at #1). Below is his Erasmus Lecture delivered in New York at First Things on the topic “Can the Religious Rigth be Saved?” Now you might be thinking, why would anyone want to save the religious right OR does the religious right need to be saved? My advice, listen to his lecture either the video below, or... Read more

In the photo is N.T. Wright (NT scholar, St. Andrews) and Oliver Crisp (Theologian, Fuller Seminary), this so calls out for a caption! Here’s my captions: “Analytic Theology sounds like a baby made by Charles Hodge and A.J. Ayer. Olly, seriously bro, do you even exegesis?” “No offense Oliver, but you are fruitier than that banana in front of you!” “Oliver my boy, imagine if you can, a world where people don’t actually care about the difference between enhypostasis and anhypostasis,... Read more

Following constructive discussions between IVP and SBL, I’m very glad to report that these two organizations have issued a joint statement which demonstrates that IVP has satisfied concerns that were raised by SBL about IVP’s commitment to academic freedom and open inquiry. What this means, is that IVP will be – as it should be – one of the exhibitors at the SBL annual meeting in 2017. I’m so glad that these two wonderful organization found some common ground and... Read more