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February 9, 2023
What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling
I had a multi-part series on gender and sexuality. See here. In one of those posts I reviewed Abigail Shrier’s …
February 6, 2023
Can you become a Christian without reading the Pauline epistles? Is the gospel in the Gospels?
Recently I reviewed The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight. A key point McKnight makes is that we can truncate …
Can you become a Christian without reading the Pauline epistles?
Recently I reviewed The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight. A key point McKnight makes is that we can truncate …
February 2, 2023
“We are all God’s children?” -continued thoughts
As I study through John… John 1:12-13: 12 “Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in …
Book giveaway: In Christ by E. Stanley Jones. #Methodist
I came across a like new copy of the devotional In Christ by Methodist missionary E. Stanley Jones, and I’d …
January 30, 2023
Does John’s theological purpose make the content of John less reliable or factually accurate? Book review
*This post begins with a brief book review, and then moves into the question about John’s Gospel.* Walter Brueggemann is …
January 27, 2023
Christ and/in the Old Testament (Kuyper)
Originally posted on The Reformed Reader Blog:
When I was a younger Christian, I would have readily admitted that the OT does contain…
When I was a younger Christian, I would have readily admitted that the OT does contain…
January 26, 2023
Oh good, Jesus didn’t talk about that… get out of jail free card!
I meant to share this clip when it happened last year (Rep. Ted Lieu Recites ‘What Jesus Christ Said About …
January 24, 2023
Book signing, meeting a Bible scholar/author, Baker Academic
Last Sunday I visited well-known Capital Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. I took a book I am reading written …
January 23, 2023
Assessment of a bookstore…
Recently I was in Washington, D.C. and visited an independent bookstore called Lost City Books. I enjoy book stores and …
