Martín y Hazel Frost Nuestra Vida en Argentina

(Here is a fine homiletical research piece by one of my students in Asbury’s ACE program. See what you think). Whether a cram sermon writing session on Saturday night or a well thought out sermon series prepared over weeks’ time, pastors, at least the good ones, hope their Sunday morning messages do not fall on [...]

James Howell is the senior ministry at my home church– Myers Park UMC in Charlotte. See what you think of the following post. http://revjameshowell.blogspot.com/

NT Studies and the Septuagint by larryhurtado It has often struck me as curious that the “Septuagint” (LXX) as been so widely neglected among NT scholars, and so often overlooked by PhD students in the field. So, e.g., when PhD students tackle the meaning of some OT passage cited or alluded to in the NT, [...]

The much anticipated, and now World Number One movie (grossing already a staggering one billion dollars), the Avengers has hit the movie screens in at three formats (2D, 3D, real 3D) and I will tell you now, you will do just as well to see it in 2D instead of 3D, unless you have real [...]

Here is a useful reminder of online resources on text criticism. by larry hurtado One of the growth areas in biblical studies of the last several decades has been textual criticism. This is certainly true for NT studies, and seems to me to be the case also in Hebrew OT and LXX studies. It is [...]

Dr. James Charlesworth is a distinguished member of the faculty at Princeton, and a fellow United Methodist in connection with the Western N.C. Conference. Jim is a friend and I have known him for years, and asked him to do a little Q and A to help clear up some of the misconceptions about the [...]

Top 10 Reasons Why Men Shouldn’t Be Ordained (Kudos to Jason Jackson for this). 10. A man’s place is in the army. 9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent. 8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks such as chopping [...]

Here is the link to my Palm Sunday sermon—- http://www.thewoodlandsumc.org/message/traditional/20120401

Here’s an update from Larry Hurtado…. New Cambridge History of the Bible by larryhurtado The morning post today included a flyer announcing the publication of the first two (of four) volumes of the New Cambridge History of the Bible by Cambridge University Press (CUP). Those familiar with the Cambridge History of the Bible (CHB, a [...]

(The following is a helpful post by Larry Hurtado.  It also reminds us that it is possible for Evangelicals to look really stupid when they over-react to something without doing fact check first). I’ve just been alerted to the latest hysterical reaction to translating the NT. (Of course, the week isn’t over yet, so we [...]

Big ole bulbous spider sat on the window screen….. Along came the cardinal and wiped the window clean…. (N.B. This is an Asbury cardinal, not a Catholic one). Thanks to Justin for the pics from our classroom window today !!

John Grisham is nothing if not prolific, but far be it from moi to complain about that, as it would be an example of the pot calling the kettle black. In recent years John has branched out into non-fiction, and more recently into teenage fiction with his Theo Boone kid lawyer series (now in its [...]

Here is a very interesting post by Larry Hurtado. My own view is that Christian institutions which have statements of faith that faculty are expected to sign or affirm in order to teach there have every right to hold their faculty accountable for what they say and do, though this should be done in a [...]

There is a film to be released in 2013 of which this clip is but a trailer.  Enjoy:  

———– Douglas Campbell’s “Rereading” of Paul by larry hurtado In an earlier posting I drew attention to the review of recent Pauline scholarship by Tom Wright in the latest issue of Expository Times (vol. 123,May 2012), and mentioned that the same issue contains a large article by Douglas Campbell in which he sets out to [...]

Here is a fine NY Times article about the origins of the Orthodox Church in Ethiopia. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/arts/design/churches-of-aksum-and-lalibela.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28_20120422

See this post about a podcast interview on the Bible and women.

Spirited Discourse about God Language in the New Testament (this is an expanded form of a recent article that I did for BAR). In John 4, in his discussion with the Samaritan woman, Jesus has some profound things to say about the nature of worship, and indeed about the nature of God, and the connection [...]

THE YARD SALE The soldiers with their dice Gambled for his clothes, A sort of ancient yard sale The victim they’d expose. And as I stood out in the rain The hoards came in due course To buy our daughter’s precious things And bargain without remorse, It seemed to me as I watched A spectacle [...]