Charlottesville, Racism, and Politics (Part 1): What Are We Doing Wrong?
Eight years ago, I started my first blog back when I was still teaching Worldview at my former school. You could have called me either fearless or naïve, but fa...
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The Genre, Historical Context, and Purpose of Genesis 1-11
Genesis: O Where to Begin? The book of Genesis is about beginnings: the beginning of creation, of humanity, and of civilization itself. Now, many of us in the m...
Early Christian Writings: The Didache–Circa Late First Century AD (Chapter 5-16)
The Didache is one of the earliest Christian writings after the Apostolic period (i.e. the first century) that we possess, and it gives us a glimpse into early ...
Early Christian Writings: The Didache–Circa Late First Century AD (Chapters 1-4)
For the next few posts, I am going to share a more “reader-friendly” version of The Didache. It is one of the earliest Christian writings after the ...
The Writings of the Early Church: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (Part 3: Chapters 11-12)
To read chapters 1-5, click here. To read chapters 6-10, click here. Chapter 11: These Things are Worthy to be Known and Believed Just so you know, I’m not spea...
The Writings of the Early Church: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (Part 2: Chapters 6-10)
For Part 1, check here. Chapter 6: The Revelation of Christians to the World If I were to sum up all this in one word, I’d say that the Christians are to the wo...
The Writings of the Early Church: The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus (130 AD) (Part 1: Chapters 1-5)
***Chances are, if you ever have tried to read the writings of the early Church Fathers, you have found them to be quite difficult to understand. Even the Engli...
In the End, Only Two Things are Certain: Death, and the Ark Encounter’s Attempt to Avoid Taxes
As anyone who reads my blog knows, I’ve written quite a bit about Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis over the past two years. My focus, though, has always been spec...
Joshua’s Conquest of Canaan, Genocide, Biblical Reliability…and the big point where I disagree with Peter Enns
Ever since the writing of his book, Inspiration and Incarnation, Peter Enns has been somewhat of a lightning rod in many Evangelical circles. I have always enjo...
A Book Review of Peter Enns’ “Inspiration and Incarnation” (Part 5): The Old Testament and Its Interpretation in the New Testament
In his final chapter of Inspiration and Incarnation, Peter Enns devotes his time addressing a topic that most Christians, if they admit it, really don’t get: ho...