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FROM ‘THE LEGEND’ TO ‘THE GOSPEL’
By
Ben Witherington
We are drawing near to the beginning of the American holiday season which seems to extend backwards into fall ever further as each year passes. The end result of this is that we begin to get the holiday season movies even at the end of October, all in the spirit of “only X more shopping…
Agrapha— by Maria Mayo Robbins
By
Ben Witherington
I am very pleased to offer you a poem written by a doctoral student at Vanderbilt Divinity School whom I have had the pleasure of getting to know while teaching there from time to time.————- Agrapha I. Peel back the layers of me, I am stratified.I am Mark, I am Special M, Special L. I…
Chrysostom, Mother Teresa, and George Herbert on Prayer
By
Ben Witherington
Certainly for me, one of the most enriching things I have done in recent years is read large quantities of the greatest of the exegetes among the Greek Fathers—- John Chrysostom. I awoke this morning to this reading, which I thought was certainly worth sharing. “For the psalmist says,’When I remembered you upon my bed,…
Thought for the Day— A SAINT AIN’T
By
Ben Witherington
One theologian has wryly defined a saint as a religious figure from hoary antiquity whose life has been insufficiently researched! In short, a saint ain’t. “For we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God…..”
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