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Joshua HeavinTheologyBibleBooks

Review: Pauline Theology as a Way of Life by Joshua Jipp

Joshua Jipp's work on Paul is a worthy study, particularly in the ways it places Paul in conversation with both ancient and modern philosophy.

Vika PecherskyBiblePhilosophy

The Self and Subjectivity of Paul

Philippians provides an interesting window into how Paul imagines the self—and makes for a good conversation partner with modern ideas around the self.

Mitch EastBible

Bones that Smell Like Roses

If we profess that God can raise the dead, is it really too much to suggest that he might also preserve some of the faithful dead from bodily decay?

Cameron ShafferBibleTheologyChurch

Renewing Public Protestantism: Seminaries

The church is in decline because it has pastors who may know techniques, but do not know God’s revelation. And now neither does the church.

David MooreBible

The Trinity in the Book of Revelation

David Moore interviewed Brandon Smith about his recent book on the doctrine of the Trinity in the book of Revelation.

Josh PaulingBible

Cross Multiplying: Expanding our Vision of the Cross

Jonathan Linebaugh's new book not only offers readers new ways of looking at the work of St Paul, it is also elegant, artful Biblical scholarship.

Eric McLaughlinBiblehealth

Christ Mirrors Back Our World

The Psalms suggest to us that we can and should be people who can lament and rejoice at the same time, for both are part of the experience of God's people.

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

When the Therapeutic God Isn't Sufficient

There was blood everywhere. The dead child – a baby of about 20 weeks gestation – just delivered, lay at one end of the table. The nurse took the body away. My wife, at the other end, laying in anguish […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

Ruth's Prequel to the Christmas Story

Every good story has a good back-story. Ridley Scott made two prequels to his popular Alien franchise. This past year Amazon offered Rings of Power to the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a prequel. The Godfather had The Godfather […]

Andrew BeerBibleFeatured

St Paul the Word Sower

“Word sower” deserves reviving. It comes from the Douay-Rheims translation of Acts 17:18: “What is it, that this word sower would say?” The word sower in question is the Apostle Paul, visiting Athens. “Word sower” is a literal rendering of […]

John CarpenterBibleFeatured

Esther and the Theology of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is our most Christian holiday. Just ask the Puritans. They did not give us Thanksgiving as an annual holiday after a great feast to celebrate a year of survival in America and then say, “This was fun, let’s do […]

Andrew KoperskiBibleFeaturedCurrent Politics

Biblical Nationalism

Several months after the shocking naval victory at Salamis in the fall of 480 BC and Xerxes’ hasty retreat to Asia with his navy, a delegation arrived in Athens. Leading this embassy was Alexander I of Macedon, a longtime friend […]