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Hello blogger friends, I’ve been reading Volume II of John Goldingay’s excellent two volume work, Old Testament Theology, 2 Vols (IVP, 2006). Among other things, Goldingay highlights an important, but almost universally overlooked, aspect of…

Hope you all had a grand thanksgiving with family and friends. I’d like to share something that happened last week. I was in Providence, Rhode Island participating in a seminar on divine providence at the…

Hi bloggers, Several people responded to my most recent blog by contrasting what I wrote with the “hostility” and “venom” they were reading on some white conservative Christian blogs the day following the election. While…

Today is a good day. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Libertarian, Communist, Anarchist or even a Christarchist who feels called to abstain from the whole political process. I couldn’t care less….

I’m sitting here in my office at 4:00 AM listening to some beautiful music. Closing my eyes and letting my imagination wander freely, I come upon a scene of an enormous field filled with rows…

Hello bloggers, Last post I promised a review of Bill Maher’s documentary Religulous. Sorry it’s taken so long, but I’ve been busy editing the final draft of my forthcoming book with Zondervan, The Myth of…

Hi friends, I feel like I’m a candidate on the campaign trail with all the traveling and (anti) political talks I’ve been giving the last month. Last week I was down on the coast of…

Several bloggers have written me in response to my most recent blog discussing Marilyn Campbell’s contention (espoused in her book Shedding Light on the Dark Side of God) that when Scripture says God engaged in…

Is it possible to believe that the whole Bible is divinely inspired and yet believe that God never engages in violence? Any one with even a cursory knowledge of the Bible would probably answer this…

Sometimes little mistakes have big consequences. I think I may have uncovered one such mistake that took place two and a half millennia ago that continues to adversely affect people’s thinking about foreknowledge. First a…

I call them “true believers” (a phrase coined by Eric Hoffer). You see it in their teary eyes, their wide smiles, their intense frowns, their enthusiastic poster-waving.  They’ve heard every canned phrase a thousand times…

I watched a film with some friends last night entitled The Band’s Visit. It was funny, painful and profound. It’s one of those films that is meant to slowly draw you into an experience rather…

I’m a citizen of a different empire (Phil 1:27; 3:20) and therefore a foreigner in this one (Heb. 11:13; 1 Pet 1:17; 2:11). I’m only here as an ambassador and soldier sent to defend and…

Hello bloggers, For the last several decades Thomas and Christine Lukashow have been discovering orthodox Christians from the 17th through the 19th centuries who were open theists and who, so far as I’m aware, no…

While at the Sopron Conference I read a number of interesting books. Here’s a brief review of the three I found most interesting. 1. Stephen Russell: Overcoming Evil God’s Way. I earlier blogged on Russell’s…

To live this way is to revolt against everything in our lives, society, government and the world that is inconsistent with the reign of God. To live this way is to revolt against Satan and…

One of the people I was most looking forward to meeting in Sopron was Alan Hirsch. (He’s part of the leadership team of Christian Associates International, which sponsored the conference I spoke at last week…