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August 2022

August 26, 2022

About the Beatles Beginning in the U.S.

August 25, 2022

The Sermon to the Hebrews

August 24, 2022

My New Website

I am very pleased to announce my new website is up and running at www.benw3.com,...

August 23, 2022

I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel, or three

August 22, 2022

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in Psidian Antioch

Posing with the authorities in Yalvac (aka Psidian Antioch), next to the Sergius Paulus inscription....

August 21, 2022

Sonday

Sunday morning's silent At least it is at dawn Just a mere whisper Or a...

August 20, 2022

The Passion Play— in Oberammagau

If someone were to ask you what is the longest running play in human history,...

August 19, 2022

How Christians Should Not Approach Political Change

Whatever may be the case with politics in a dictatorship, in a democracy things should...

August 18, 2022

The New Second Edition of New Testament Rhetoric

Witherington-Cover     Coming to a computer near you in October, but if you pre-order...

August 17, 2022

Kuralt’s Famous UNC Bicentennial Speech in 1993

  A speech about the first public university , that took its first students in...

August 16, 2022

A Review of Witherington’s Writings from the U.K.

August 15, 2022

A Rockwell Parable of our Spiritual Decline in America

Notice that the church sign they are putting up says 'Lift Up Thine Eyes' and...

August 14, 2022

Your Body– A Temple of the Holy Spirit, or a Garbage Dump?

Kentucky has a problem, and it's not just a problem in this state.  It's in...

August 13, 2022

It’s a Doggone Shame

   

August 12, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible. Part Ten. What about the Trinity?

You will remember that I mentioned in a previous post in this series that we...

August 11, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible. Part Nine. Glossing over the Apostasy Warnings

What exactly is the pathway to the Kingdom of God and what are the entrance...

August 10, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible. Part Eight. False Readings of Complex Narratives

In some ways, the most difficult things to interpret in the Bible are the historical...

August 09, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible. Part Seven. False Harmonizing

  One of the tendencies of conservative readers of the Bible is to minimize, ignore,...

August 08, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible. Part Six– Bad Eschatology

Eschatology is by definition the study of the final or end things, but the term...

August 07, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible Part Five. Interpret Everything Allegorically

The Bible is not, overall, a piece of coded literature written in elaborately allegorical manner...

August 06, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible. Part Four– Interpreting Everything Literally

The Bible is a wonderful collection of all sorts or genres of literature, and it...

August 05, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible– Part Three. What Subjects Does the Bible Teach Us About

One of the perennial problems of Biblical Interpretation is figuring out what exactly the Bible...

August 04, 2022

Guns and Lilies— What does the 2nd Amendment Really Say?

There is so much false information out there about the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution...

August 03, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible– Part Two. Progressive Revelation

One of the absolutely major problems in the way some conservative Christians read the Bible...

August 02, 2022

How Not to Interpret the Bible– Part One. The Slavery Issue

    Sometimes I get really frustrated with some Biblical scholars.  They can't see the...

August 01, 2022

The Way We Used to Be– Journey’s Pandemic Song

July 2022

July 31, 2022

Afterglow– Journey

This is the only track on the new lp that doesn't feature Arnel Pineda...

July 30, 2022

Don’t Give Up on Us–Journey

July 29, 2022

Together We Run–Journey

July 28, 2022

I Still Believe in Love— Journey

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