Readers of this blog know that I am a big N.T. Wright fan. His book on the resurrection, The Resurrection of the Son of God, strengthened my Christian faith. Today I want to call your attention to Wright’s new book...
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Why don’t more theology students take history courses?
At the school where I teach there are ample opportunities for students to shape their intellectual experience through a double “major” or a “minor” or two. Just the other day, for example, I was talking to one of my academic...
N.T. Wright on Easter
Happy Easter!...
Raphael Warnock: theologian
If you haven’t seen it yet, Gary Dorrien has published a fascinating piece at Commonweal. on re-elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock It provides several first-hand of accounts of his years at Union Theological Seminary (where Dorrien teaches) and his relationship...
What if the Christian Right is wrong?
Certainty is a hallmark of the Christian Right and fundamentalist thinking more broadly. There is little place for the mystery of God or words like “maybe” or “perhaps.” I am reminded of N.T. Wright’s words about such dogged commitments to...
There is not a “hard distinction” between the gospel and the pursuit of social justice
Mark Glanville of Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.) explains: The recent Guidepost Solutions report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention revealed that August Boto, a key leader on the SBC Executive Committee, labeled the work of advocates on behalf of survivors...
The latest musical number from N.T. Wright and Francis Collins
N.T. Wright is one the world’s most prominent biblical scholars. Francis Collins is the former Director of the National Institutes of Health. Watch: See their first collaboration here:...
What are you reading this summer?
Check out Jennifer Harlan’s New York Times piece on the history of summer reading. Here is a taste: Something about these dog days, more than any other time of year, invites readers to bury themselves in a book — and...
Teaching Tolkien’s “Leaf By Niggle”
Yesterday I tweeted: Several of you have asked me about how I teach Leaf by Niggle. Here is a piece I published here last year: Yesterday in Created and Called for Community (CCC) we read and discussed J.R.R. Tolkien’s short story “Leaf...