This post is also available inSpanish. In the modern era, we have witnessed the rebirth of charismatic gifts. Praise be to God the giver of the...

This post is also available inEnglish. En la era moderna, hemos sido testigos del renacimiento de los dones carismáticos. Alabado sea Dios, dador...

This article is also available in Spanish. A cartoon of Mafalda, one of the most famous comic strips in Latin America written by the Argentine...

This article is also available in English. Una caricatura de Mafalda, una de las tiras cómicas más famosas en Latinoamérica escrita por el...

During the many conversations revolving around race during the summer of 2020, I began to think about the scholarship of Black scholars in my...

Imagine that you saw someone teaching one-thousand people in a field. “Wow,” you might think, “that person has quite a following.” Normally, we...

This morning I awoke to the sound of a mosquito in my room, a predator intent on sucking the blood out of my body. Mosquitos are evil creatures...

Thanksgiving in the United States is one of my favorite holidays. I used to view it as the only holiday still untainted by secularism and...

“To pray well is to study well.” This is one of the many memorable statements from Jim Rosscup in the Hermeneutics class I had with him forty...

My Pilgrim's Progress class this fallis a hybrid class, with recorded lectures and discussions fully online with a number of synchronous online...

If you fundamentally identify yourself as being in Christ—as opposed to all the other options for self-identification—you will regularly respond...

It’s time I pulled the age card. At 72 years young, some things are much clearer to me now than in those halcyon days of youth. I say clearer. Not...

I am happy to announce the publication of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories in Koine Greek with GlossaHouse. It includes three of Beatrix Potter’s...

Last year my colleague Ken Way and I had the chance to tour Egypt and see the many impressive remains from Pharaonic times that still awe...

In my previous post, I discussed the nature of fittingness arguments. I recommended that we think in terms of fittingness in our reasoning about...

Suppose a murder has occurred. There is a body on the floor. In walk the detectives. What do they do? They make a lot of observations and pick up a...

The title of this post may seem silly. Reading is just the activity of decoding words and sentences as your eyes move down a page. As the shoe...

In biblical studies, one key way to advance scholarship is to publish a journal article in a respected journal. Journals publish cutting edge...

Three years ago, the world celebrated the 500 years of the beginning of what is known as the Protestant Reformation. On October 31, 1517, the...

How do we pray during a global pandemic?

Part 1 of this seriesintroduced the problem of why we are addicted to judging. Part 2 analyzed the actual troubles caused by both negative and...

Part 1 of this seriesintroduced the problem of why we are addicted to judging. This second portion analyzes the actual troubles caused by both...

I suppose that some judgments in some exceptional cases are more helpful than hurtful. Most people recognize that negative judgments are damaging,...

Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose that you possessed a magic ball from which dangled a tiny magic thread. Furthermore, suppose that when you...