Title:                          New Testament Faculty Position Department:              Academic Dean’s Office Reports to:                 Dean of Academic Affairs FLSA Status:              Exempt – Full-time Position Level: A full member of the faculty. Rank of the professor will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Position Summary: A full-time faculty position in biblical studies whose primary responsibilities will be in New Testament with additional teaching of elective coursework in congregational life, particularly in support of ministry studies and ministry preparation in the culturally and ethnically diverse... Read more

Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.BCP Read more

The Creator Revealed: A Physicist Examines the Big Bang and the Bible Michael Strauss is a David Ross Boyd Professor of Physics at the University of Oklahoma. His undergraduate degree is from Biola University and his PhD in physics is from UCLA. He’s conducted research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto and at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. He currently does research at CERN laboratory in Geneva Switzerland. His book, The Creator Revealed, frames the following... Read more

I had a wonderful week with Northern’s MA in New Testament cohort — pondering the theology of Paul on the Christian life as taught in Romans 5-8. Micro plastics cover the ocean: LONDON (Reuters) – Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in ice cores drilled in the Arctic by a U.S.-led team of scientists, underscoring the threat the growing form of pollution poses to marine life in even the remotest waters on the planet. The researchers used a helicopter... Read more

By Mike Glenn The joke among my Baptist friends is when another Baptist says, “I’m praying for you,” it simply means they’re leaving. It doesn’t mean anything else. They’re probably not going to pray. They’re not going to do anything. They’re just leaving. This is what came to mind as I watched the protests after the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. Several of the speakers and marchers spoke to this directly. The protests went something like this: “Don’t... Read more

I am on vacation this week in the Minnesota north woods. My parents have had a place on a lake since I was 3 (early 1960’s) and I’ve been spending time here ever since. When I was young  (i.e. until I left the state for graduate school) bald eagles and loons were unheard of on the lake (about due west of Duluth), although I did see loons further north in or near the Boundary Waters. Today loons are ubiquitous here... Read more

By Rachel Toor — good habits: They reject the notion of “writer’s block” the way others shun gluten. They don’t overtalk their projects. [I’d say they don’t blog and FB and Tweet and Insta about their projects.] They believe in themselves and their work. They know that a lot of important stuff happens when they’re not “working.” They’re passionate about their projects. They know what they’re good at. They read a lot, and widely. They know how to finish a... Read more

As someone who has written a few commentaries I can witness that the Introductions can be endless discussions, incorporating exegesis as well, and constant listings of scholars and their views … and the Introduction can easily take over. Let’s put it this way: some Introductions consume a hundred pages or more. Some have grown so wearied by the Introductions they put the “introduction” at the end of the commentary! There’s a way to put a big pause on such lengthy... Read more

The Bible isn’t “Green.” That is to say, it doesn’t directly address the environmental issues of our day. It does provide guidance however. Several years ago I posted on Iain Provan’s book Seriously Dangerous Religion including a post looking at the view of creation presented in the Old Testament.  It is worth a new look before moving on to Moo and Moo on Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World. A long title to this post could be ... Read more