Dear All:

After blogging away for many years, I have now joined the legion of the Enlightened at the Beliefnet Blogosphere.  All 800 plus posts from my Blogspot blog are now available here through the archives of this blog, so you may well want to do some searches about your favorite topics before wondering why I am not addressing this, that or the other.  On this blog we will discuss all things Biblical, Christian, and a host of other related (and unrelated) cultural matters.  There will be posts on music (I am also a musician), and sometimes on politics, sports, food, humor in short there are a plethora of possibilities. 

Soon I will post the Ten Commandments of Blogging for this particular blog that I hope one and all will abide by.  And yes I will be monitoring your replies and publishing many of them.  Don’t get frustrated if you don’t immediately see your response published in the discussion. I have to read and decide whether it should be published.

You do no need to be a Christian to engage in the discussion on this blog, indeed I hope many others will leap in and discuss things, but I do insist that we all discuss with respect for each other, whatever our differences may be.  A blog like this is not a place for mere venting.

The goal of this blog is simple— to tease the mind into active thought mostly about things that have to do with things Biblical and Christian.  The first major post will be a review of N.T. Wright’s new book on Justification which comes out this month, followed by a Q+A post with the author.  So buckle yourselves in and get ready for an interesting ride.  I promise it will not be dull.

Cordially,

Ben Witherington

Dr. Ben Witherington, III
Amos Professor of NT for Doctoral Studies
Asbury Theological Seminary
Wilmore Ky.
Doctoral Faculty St. Mary’s College, St. Andrews University, Scotland