David Williams, my friend and campus minister for InterVarsity in a state that is the epicenter of ACC basketball, recently ran–without my realizing it–an amazing series on C. S. Lewis on his blog resurrecting raleigh. David goes deeper than I do here, and I think you’ll like what he has to say. Here are the links to his four posts. God’s Word in (Very) Human Words, Parts 1 & 2 Genesis and Myth Myth, Truth, Fact, and Genesis Here are some choice Lewis... Read more
In 1953, C. S. Lewis wrote a introduction to J. B. Phillips’s translation of the NT letters into contemporary English, Letters to Young Churches: A Translation of the New Testament Epistles. (Eventually, Phillips translated the entire New Testament, The New Testament in Modern English.) Not everyone was crazy about a Bible in plain English. I mean, the scandal of it all. This is God’s word. You can’t have it looking so untended, so normal. As God’s word, it deserves a more... Read more
Jared Byas and I have just finished work on an e-book, Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible. It is being published by Patheos Press and should be out in a few weeks. I will update as soon as I hear more. The book is geared toward those with little background in reading Genesis or the Bible. Our focus is guiding readers to look at Genesis through ancient eyes, and so... Read more
I have updated my list of upcoming and published books here (or on the “Books” tab above). I am letting you know in case any of you are thinking of how to spend your afternoon and can’t decide between Farmville, classic college bowling on ESPN, or watching your cat wash itself. Now you have a fourth choice. Read more
Jared Byas has a great post today on how he and his wife have decided to raise a Christian family. Spoiler alert: it does not involve membership to Focus on the Family. You can read the entire post here…. Read more
“The scholar never fully knows in advance where his line of thought will lead him. For the Christian to undertake scholarship is to undertake a course of action that may lead him into the painful process of revising his actual Christian commitments, sorting through his beliefs, and discarding some from a position where they can any longer function as control. It may, indeed, even lead him to a point where his authentic commitment has undergone change. We are profoundly historical... Read more
At GospelFutures, Neil Williams’s next post is up on the power of story for providing coherence for the human drama. He addressed “Why Story” in his previous post. Today he looks at the Christian story specifically. As far back as we have written records, humans have used stories to figure out their world and to help them understand what it means to be human. We are story-telling creatures—from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter…. A question that remains is,... Read more
Today’s guest post is written by Carlos Bovell, who has recently written several posts for us, the most recent of which is here. Carlos is the author of four books that critique biblical inerrancy as intellectually problematic and (therefore) spiritually debilitating. In Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism (part of Zondervan’s Counterpoints Series), we read a contemporary portrayal of fundamentalism by Kevin T. Bauder (former president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis): The gospel is always doctrinal. Without doctrinal explanations,... Read more
A short while ago, I was interviewed by the one and only Tripp Fuller over at Homebrewed Christianity on The Evolution of Adam. The interview is just over an hour long, and in it I make several penetrating and insightful comments that will likely change your life forever, such as, “Thanks, Tripp. It’s great to be here.” and “Thanks for having me.” Read more
The following is an edited version of the foreword I wrote for Carlos Bovell’s Rehabilitating Inerrancy in a Culture of Fear. Carlos recently wrote three guest posts for this blog. Inerrancy was once the unquestioned foundation for the evangelical tradition. In recent generations, however, it has become within evangelicalism a theological problem needing to be addressed. Many evangelical thinkers over the last several generations have raised their voices to say that we can no longer marginalize or explain away broadly... Read more
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