N.B. The following is an excerpt from a book I am working on, on Money in the NT. Enjoy…..but take off your bling while reading it 🙂—————————- CHAPTER SEVEN: PAUL—ON WORK, REMUNERATION, AND THE LOVE OF MONEY “The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than…

O.K., I did not see this story coming. It seems that in a desperate attempt to capture the Italian beach going public in August, nuns and priests are now transporting an inflatable ‘convent’, which blows up to 98 feet in length (now that’s a lot of hot holy air) to the beach where persons can…

It’s a sad truth, but nonetheless a truth, that the rock and roll era is mostly over, after a half a century of changing the landscape of popular music. I was fortunate enough to be along for the full ride, doing a lot of work in record stores, and going to a ton of great…

The following is a seminar paper presented by one of my doctoral students which I thought was a useful critique of Bart Ehrman’s popular work on ‘Lost Christianities.BW3 ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF CANON AND CULTURE: AN ANALYSIS OF EHRMAN’S LOST CHRISTIANITIES SUBMITTED TO DRS. WARREN SMITH AND BEN WITHERINGTONIN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFNT805—THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS AND…

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