authority

One major focus of the questions students at McCormick Seminary asked in response to my...

I’ve mentioned before how much I feel I have learned about the New Testament from...

Via Daniel Kirk on Facebook, who came up with the perfect hashtag to bring Elizabeth...

I participated in a fascinating conversation about the Gospel of John as a group of...

Inerrancy is about the desire to have one's own views regarded as inerrant. The inerrancy...

The quote comes from Fred Clark's recent post, "How to understand 'Biblical inerrantists.'" Here is...

Hemant Mehta drew attention to a statement by the dean of Liberty University's law school,...

It is an older article, but Jennifer Raff's piece on differentiating between science and pseudoscience...

The blog Only a Game had a wonderful post recently about the issue with Wikipedia,...

Doug Chaplin has posted about the extraordinary antitheses in Matthew's Gospel. I disagree with his...

David Hayward's cartoon featured above gets at a lot of important points. We frequently "mishear"...

A commenter on this blog made this insightful observation: Ham's words actually imply (to me...

Terry Firma shared the above image. It helpfully illustrates what is really going on in...

David Hayward has done it again. Such a simple and yet such a poignant idea...

John Shore has the following to say in a post today: The conservatives’ kill shot...

There is an interesting contrast between the way Paul wrote about the content of his...

Fred Clark has an excellent post highlighting the contrast between two different outlooks reflected in...

Someone shared this status update on Facebook: The devil is using the same trick that...

There are many people who toss around phrases like "the authority of the Bible" without...

It is useful to discuss what is going on with Christopher Rollston at Emmanuel Christian...

I could not find the original source of the quotation, but presume that it is...

One of the most annoying things about dealing with Protestants is their insistence on Biblical...

Some people think that they must defend the Bible's various words, statements, and depictions as...

The above cartoon from The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus makes a crucially important point....

Exploring Our Matrix is one of several blogs that is participating in the Pete Enns...

In one of my classes, after discussing a number of difficulties and issues related to...

Take a look at this post by Crystal St. Marie Lewis, offering parallel fictional depictions...

David Withun offers an interesting extended quote from James Turner's book Without God, Without Creed:...

The "argument from authority" is a well-known logical fallacy which involves citing an expert as...