A Response to a Reader: The Orthodox Church and YECism
A couple of weeks ago, someone sent me a message that he had written a critique of some of my earlier blog posts regarding the issues of theistic evolution, Ada...
Category: Biblical Studies
James 1:6: To Doubt or Not to Doubt? (…and why Pete Enns isn’t quite right on this…and a funny story how he helped get me fired!)
Just yesterday I happened across as Tweet from Pete Enns, in which he re-posted a short post he wrote back in 2017 about James 1:6, the verse that says the foll...
New Book Analysis Series: “Reading While Black:African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope” by Esau McCaulley (Part 1)
Last fall, Esau McCaulley, an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, came out with his book, Reading While Black: An African American Biblical...
Book Review: “(Mis)Interpreting Genesis” by Ben Stanhope…yes, it is REALLY GOOD
Over the past five years or so, I’ve written quite a lot about the creation/evolution debate, particularly on the misinterpretation of Genesis 1-11 by young ear...
The Song of Solomon: A Reading
I admit that this is a rather different kind of post. In my Wisdom Literature class, we are currently going over The Song of Solomon, a book that, let’s f...
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Part 3)–Concluding Remarks
We now come to my final post in this short series involving my look at the book, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?, that covers a debate on that t...
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Part 2)–A Debate Between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans: Responses and Some Analysis
We now come to Part 2 of my short blog series on the book Can we Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? that is essentially the transcript of a debate between...
Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (A New Series/Book Analysis of the Debate Between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans)
Just recently, a new book came out entitled, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? It is essentially the transcript from a debate between Bart Ehrman ...
“A Biblical History of Israel” by Iain Provan: An Extended Book Analysis–Part 12: In Praise of Critical Thought (…and the gloves come off)
At the end of the 2nd edition of Provan, Long, and Longman’s book, A Biblical History of Israel (BHI), they have added an appendix entitled, “In Praise of Criti...
“A Biblical History of Israel” by Iain Provan: An Extended Book Analysis–Part 11: The Exilic and Post-Exilic Period
Chapter 11 of Provan, Long, and Longman’s book, A Biblical History of Israel, takes us from the Fall of Jerusalem in 587 BC all the way through to the Post-Exil...