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Forgiveness is hard work, requires a steely commitment to make reconciliation happen at the deepest and realistic levels, and filters down from a leader to the people. Sports and cheering for a team are capable of reconciling enemies and those deeply suspicious of one another.  Such are the themes that emerged over and over in…

“On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh” (Matthew 2:10-11). Christmas, the original one, had gifts. Some are torn about giving gifts at Christmas because they protest…

Today I’d like to begin blogging through Gregory Macdonald’s book The Evangelical Universalist . The first order of business, which is his too, is to get this term “universalism” straight and I want to attach adjectives to his descriptions. After reading Parry’s definition of “Christian universalism,” do you think it can be squared with the…

Along with Alan Hauser (Appalachian State University) and Jonathan Klawans (Boston University), I am co-editor of the journal Currents in Biblical Research. This journal can be read to keep up with “what’s going on?” in Old Testament studies, Judaism studies, and New Testament studies. The publisher just offered to us a 30% discount by contacting…
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