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If you are a Tom Wright fan, then this is the right conference for you. Here’s a link to some of the lectures and presentations at the April 16-17th conference at Wheaton — http://samson.wheaton.edu/wetn/lectures-theology10.html

CHAPTER ELEVEN: RETURN TO THE SEASHORE It was Friday, and the travelers had been moving with some pace as they wanted to reach Kefer Nahum, the village named after the prophet Nahum, in time for the Shabbat service in the synagogue there. Built within a hundred yards of the sea, this synagogue of stone had…

           If you are a serious student of the Bible and its key terms and metaphors, it does not take long before you realize that ‘sin’ is seen as something more than just a momentary lapse of good judgment resulting in a brief stupid act.  This of course is how we in the West have…

CHAPTER TEN: WINING AND DINING The wedding feast turned out to be the biggest celebration of the year in this small village. Practically everyone in town was invited, and even some who were not initially invited showed up after last minute invitations were offered, people like Jesus’ disciples. This taxed the caterers to the limits…

In the first chapter of his important book,  Gary Anderson lays out his cards as to how to approach the issue of sin.  His will be a history of ideas and their development approach, or put another way, a diachronic approach.  In principle, this is no different than what I did in my book Jesus…

CHAPTER NINE: COMING TO QANA It did not take long for Andrew to notice some noteworthy differences between Jesus and John the baptizer. Jesus was no ascetic, nor did he dress in spartan or prototypical prophetic clothing, nor did he shun the unclean. Indeed, he seemed to actually enjoy spending time with people guilty of…

One of my best friends, A.J. Levine, a NT professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School was teaching at a penitentiary in the Nashville area named Riverbend. The subject on the occasion was the Lord’s Prayer.  Bob Smetana in the Nashville newspaper reports what happened on that evening. “Levine is also always learning from students, colleagues, and…

CHAPTER EIGHT: SIMON AND CEPHAS He sat by the lake skimming stones across the placid water. It was early morning and only the fishermen had been out on the lake thus far, and with little results as the air and the water were so still. Jesus had had a quiet night at the house of…

CHAPTER SEVEN: LOOKING FOR LEARNERS While John’s preaching and baptizing might well be serving as a wake up call for many Galileans and Judeans, for Jesus it had led to reflections not about amendment of life, but about the time in which he was living. John, in the same pattern as prophets of old like…

Last night on ESPN there was this huge debate as to whether baseball or football is a better sport. The debate was rather easily won by Buck Showalter and was seconded by Dave Winfield, who are both of course, baseball guys.   But it brings up a point about how much hype and propaganda goes…
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