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February 2016

February 25, 2016
I'm currently researching the virgin birth (more accurately: virginal conception) accounts in the gospels. I...
February 23, 2016
For awhile now, I've wondered why more hasn't been written linking Kierkegaard's thought with themes...
February 19, 2016
The gods favor those who conquer. Walter Wink's now-classic book, Engaging the Powers, begins with...
February 18, 2016
What makes a true Christian? Who gets to determine that? That's the most obvious question...
February 17, 2016
Walter Brueggemann is a rare bird. He's a biblical scholar, an Old Testament theologian, with...
February 12, 2016
Like a lot of the rest of America, I was entranced with the Netflix documentary...
February 10, 2016
A book I regularly assign my theology students is Virgilio Elizondo's Galilean Journey: The Mexican-American...
February 09, 2016
Today is a big day at Wheaton College. It's not a happy day. It's a...
February 08, 2016
Does believing in life after death make this life more precious and valuable or less so?...
February 04, 2016
Yesterday I posted a response to a reader's rich question about the resurrection: What happens...
February 03, 2016
A reader of my blog sent me a really good question the other day. It's...
February 01, 2016
"How Modern Metaphysics Killed God." That's the topic of today's video conference discussion with eminent...

January 2016

January 26, 2016
Looking for a provocative and insightful way of putting an important question about God and...
January 21, 2016
Some encouraging news came out from Wheaton College today, with a Time news report that...
January 20, 2016
One of the greatest living Christian theologians, Jürgen Moltmann, has this to say about the...
January 18, 2016
As Liberty University readies itself for Donald Trump's chapel appearance today--yes, today, on the day...
January 15, 2016
In his book, The Coming of God, written thirty years after the groundbreaking Theology of...
January 14, 2016
Does Jesus really expect us to "turn the other cheek"? Here's the full text:  You...
January 11, 2016
Andrew Sung Park is a theologian you don't want to miss. I've used his excellent...
January 06, 2016
Ernest Becker, toward the end of his influential book, The Birth and Death of Meaning, offers up...
January 05, 2016
Matthew's "Sermon on the Mount" perplexes, bewilders, and confuses readers. What is Jesus getting at...
January 04, 2016
I'm excited to share an announcement about an upcoming theology conference (March 3-5) in Redondo...

December 2015

December 30, 2015
2015 was a fun year for me vocationally and theologically. Some of that was because...
December 22, 2015
The following is a guest post by Adam Rao. See his bio below. Later this...
December 21, 2015
The Quran devotes a lot of attention to Mary, mother of Jesus. Remarkably, she is...
December 17, 2015
Still to this day, one of the more profound experiences of my education took place...
December 12, 2015
If you're a life-long Protestant like me, you may have never heard of the "Feast...
December 11, 2015
What if the Millennium Falcon landed on an art gallery? Dan Addington is a Chicago...
December 10, 2015
By now, most anyone in the U.S. paying attention on social media knows about Liberty...
December 08, 2015
All the bombs falling on ISIS are not deterring people from joining their cause. A...
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