Bemoaning “Naked” Baptisms & Klinefelter syndrome
Had a brief engagement the other day with a person who seemed bent on using an out of context fact about some early church baptisms among the Greek believers to…
Biblical Theology with Legs
All things related to modern issues of Cross-Cultural Communication and the Contextualization of Scripture (i.e. application in divergent cultures… like our own.)
Had a brief engagement the other day with a person who seemed bent on using an out of context fact about some early church baptisms among the Greek believers to…
No matter what you think I’m saying at any given point in this article. Please read to the very end. Wisdom dialogue takes time and makes turns in the hope…
This is another one of my audience-less lectures. Tame, steady, devoid of my shrieking “pay attention! This is important” moments. I discuss the vital role that all three major methods…
One of the transforming insights I’ve gained over the last few years regards the blindness, deafness, insensibility of the human heart. I sit stupefied at the depth of human evil…
During my recent convalescence after surgery I received a disturbing letter from an earnest young man who was understandably distraught over his shunning from a congregation for whom he felt…
There’s been a lot of chatter on social media of late about torture. Now, torture is a powerful weasel word… i.e. a term that comes pre-loaded with good or bad…
In my last post, I took an honest look at my early years as a biblical studies professor. I considered a handful of things I could have done better as…
I have of late, been addressing the popularity of Word Faith teachers whose central focus in ministry (other than collecting your offerings) is to tell you that God has promised…
In my last post, I mentioned that Rev. Mike Caparrelli, pastor of Sacred Exchange Fellowship in East Greenwich RI, an old student of mine, recently gave a rousing example of…
In a recent set of posts on Hebrews 11:3, I was pretty brutal on Word Faith teachers… what some call Hyper-faith teachers, or the Name-it-Claim-it bunch. They teach that God…
I received an email this week from one of my students in India. She wanted to know if I could give her a biblical defense for celebrating Christmas. I said…
As a good Evangelical… just a second, I have to adjust my halo… Okay, it’s got that 20s-gangster-hat tilt I like so much… So, as a good Evangelical who has…