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Many of you no doubt are familiar with this Christmas hymn, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”: O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the son of God appear Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel. Actually, it is an […]
Continue ReadingThe Law of Love
In the Bible scholars often talk of two kinds of law: apodictic and casuistic. These are part of a collection […]
Continue ReadingGod is Not A Being
A God whose existence or nonexistence you can argue is a thing beside others within the universe of existing things. […]
Continue ReadingDoes the Bible Give Us Access to Absolute Truth?
No. Thanks everyone for coming to my TED talk. Alright fine, I’ll say a little more. Ever since my book […]
Continue ReadingA Pilgrimage to Understanding the Biblical World Better
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (Ph.D., The University of Sheffield, England) is an Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Leadership and […]
Continue ReadingPodcast Interview at Homebrewed Christianity on (what else?) My Book on Adam
A short while ago, I was interviewed by the one and only Tripp Fuller over at Homebrewed Christianity on The […]
Continue ReadingInerrancy and Younger Evangelicals
The following is an edited version of the foreword I wrote for Carlos Bovell’s Rehabilitating Inerrancy in a Culture of […]
Continue ReadingThe Bible ≠ The Gospel (and why that’s important).
On our GospelFutures website, my friend an co-laborer theologian Neil Williams is adding to his series on relational transformation with […]
Continue ReadingGuest Post: Inerrancy at the Evangelical Theological Society
Carlos Bovell has written three previous posts here over the last week (1, 2, 3–click any of these for his […]
Continue ReadingGuest Post: Rehabilitating Inerrancy in a Culture of Fear
Today’s guest post by Carlos Bovell, his third, is an edited excerpt from chapter 4 of his upcoming book Rehabilitating […]
Continue ReadingTwo Upcoming Speaking Events in April
On April 12, I will be at NC State speaking and participating in a panel discussion on the topic of—stop […]
Continue ReadingTelling God’s Story, Grade 2, Is Out and About, I’m Told
Grade 2 of my children’s Bible Curriculum Telling God’s Story is out, or nearly so, the proof of which I […]
Continue ReadingThoughts on Kevin DeYoung’s Restless Comments on the Historical Adam
When I read Kevin DeYoung’s post last week on 10 reasons to believe in a historical Adam, I was initially […]
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