The Electronic Student: Bible Study (Black Friday Edition)
The Internet is the best and worst thing that could have happened to serious study, I wrote last time in this series. The benefit is in...
November 25, 2011
The Dangerous Prayer: Praying While Sinning
Temptation begins with, “I want to …” The second step is, “I shouldn’t …” The third step is “But I really do want to …” The...
September 30, 2011
Freedom of Religion Watch
On my RSS news reader this morning: Professor Says Vanderbilt Suppressing Christian Student Groups Amid Shutdown Threats Priest barred from saying mass In England, Displaying Bible...
September 27, 2011
A Great Answer To a Different Question
My most recent Daily Press column, A Great Answer To a Different Question, begins Here’s a snippet of a conversation I hear frequently, not exactly in...
August 22, 2011
“God Behaving Badly” by David T. Lamb
Book Review God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist? by David T. Lamb “How does one reconcile the loving...
July 24, 2011
Is Campus Crusade Falling Away From Christ?
Update: See also It’s Not About Us I am a long-term staff member with Campus Crusade for Christ who has believed that it was time for...
July 22, 2011
“Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? An Overview”
A popular-level follow-up to Paul Copan’s book on the ethics of the Old Testament: If Bible-believing Southerners had followed Israel’s law code, antebellum slavery would not...
April 19, 2011
The Bible, God, Genocide, Slavery, Misogyny, and Other Strange Stuff
Book Review Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God by Paul Copan The Old Testament God doesn’t seem to make sense....
April 7, 2011
“God’s Wife Edited Out of the Bible — Almost : Discovery News”
Okay, all you Old Testament scholars out there: is there at least one other possible explanation for this? I mean, besides the ridiculously impossible one suggested...
March 29, 2011
