Scripture
Grading Jesus’ first sermon (Luke 4:14-21)
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
A strange first clue (John 2:1-11)
I think the disciples were a bit like detectives.
Water and fire (Psalm 29; Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22)
John the Baptist's world and ours
A Jewish and Christian commentary on Luke’s gospel
Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington’s dialogue is most illuminating when the co-authors disagree.
N. T. Wright’s creative reconstruction of Paul and his world
Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?
The New Testament’s christological hymns are songs of resistance
They use the conventions of Jewish resistance poetry to challenge Roman occupation.
Taking the Bible seriously means reading it figurally
What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.
A climate scientist talks—respectfully—to climate-change skeptics
“My message is that you don’t have to change who you are to care about this issue.”