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What to Give Mom on Valentine’s
By
Ben Witherington
Mama’s Bible Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city. The first said, “I had a big house built for…
“Goodnight and Good Luck”— a Timely Film
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Ben Witherington
There are rumblings in Congress these days about the Patriot Act and whether it perhaps has gone too far and needs to be scaled back. In this current milieu in which fear-based decision making seems to continue to dominate the American political landscape, there is hardly a more timely movie one could see than “Goodnight…
God and Gambling– the Latest Scourge
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Ben Witherington
It may not be on the medieval list of the seven deadly sins, but we should have realized that since Jesus and the NT has plenty to say about and against ‘the love of money’, gambling was likely to surface at some point as one of the major besetting sins of a culture with too…
The Litmus Test of Genuine Christian Experience
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Ben Witherington
C.H. Dodd was one of the truly great NT scholars in the U.K. before, during and after WWII. His commentary on the Johannine Epistles is a classic, and continues to offer fresh insight into the text and its relevance for evaluating Christian life today. Here is a quote from that commentary that itself deserves both…
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