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Pete’s Bible Trivia Bonanza #12 — Jeremiah Didn’t Have a Pentateuch
The prophet Jeremiah lived during the time when the Babylonians invaded Judah (beginning in 597 BCE) and then captured Jerusalem […]
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Reading the Bible With Mutual Respect
I don’t know about you but I grew up with this nagging thought in the back of my mind when […]
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Rachel Held Evans and Her God
I am thinking about Rachel’s passing a year ago, along with many of you. I continue to mourn the tremendous […]
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Author Spotlight: Melissa Florer-Bixler
Have you ever said to yourself, “AHHHHHHHHHH there are so many great books out there I want to read and […]
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Getting Back to Normal After COVID-19. Maybe. Maybe Not.
We all react to COVID-19 in our own way. Some hoard, some hide. Some fear for their own safety and […]
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Engaging the Bible as If God Were Out Ahead of Us
Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask […]
Continue ReadingOn the podcast we are constantly exploring these two questions: what is the Bible and what do we do with it? Well, in the past few years, these questions have caused me to examine this question: what role should the Bible play in teaching us right and wrong? That is, […]
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What God Thinks of the Theology Books We Write
What we think of the theology books we write: Well, I’ve worked for years on this, and I have […]
Continue Reading The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful [fill in the blank]
Recently, a friend of mine–former professor in Christian higher education, currently in the witness protection program hiding from the Christian […]
Continue Reading Evolution, Evangelicals, and their Bible (Or, Dealing with How God Rolls)
[The following is adapted from the conclusion of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about […]
Continue Reading Susan Wise Bauer’s review of Mark Driscoll’s view on Marriage
Susan Wise Bauer has written a review of Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship, and Life Together by Mark […]
Continue Reading Release Date for The Evolution of Adam
Hi folks. For those 2 or 3 dozen of you who are actually following this, I was just notified by […]
Continue Reading Review of C. John Collins’s “Did Adam and Eve Really Exist?”
Here is a link to the December 2011 issue of the online journal, Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought. It contains […]
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New Year’s Note to Self
Dear Self, Here are things you can’t control: God other people Here is something you can control: yourself There’s more, […]
Continue Reading Just Sit There
If you’ve ever tried to be still, just still, you know how hard this is. We long for noise, distractions–anything […]
Continue Reading (Shut Up, Already, and) Listen to the Desert
I recently read Listen to the Desert: Secrets of Spiritual Maturity from the Desert Fathers and Mothers by Gregory Mayers. […]
Continue Reading Two Final Recurring Mistakes in the Adam/Evolution Discussion (4)
Evidence for and against evolution is open to all and can be assessed by anyone. The sciences are technical and […]
Continue Reading Did Paul Believe in the Bible?
I am here in San Francisco at the Society of Biblical Literature annual Sea of Tweed and Bowtie Geekfest. This […]
Continue Reading Still More Recurring Mistakes in the Adam/Evolution Discussion (3)
Since Adam is necessary for the Christian faith, we know evolution can’t be true. Evolution causes theological problems for Christianity. […]
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