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September 2016

September 05, 2016

The real Palestinian suffering

It's not in Israel.  Nor is it caused by Jews. Here is the Palestinian journalist...

September 04, 2016

Marilyn Monroe, stutterer

"First time was at the orphanage, and then later in my teens I stuttered.  And...

September 01, 2016

The story we need to hear

We have heard many stories in the media by same-sex attracted people who have "come...

August 2016

August 26, 2016

Major new study: Homosexuality not innate

Two of the nation's most distinguished experts on mental health recently published a major study...

August 26, 2016

God is not transgender

A recent op-ed in the New York Times argues that God is transgender and we...

August 26, 2016

Q&A on The New Christian Zionism

Zionism is kind of a hot-button issue? What drew you to this topic? After twenty-four...

August 24, 2016

The ship has launched

Finally, the book has come out: The New Christian Zionism. Two ideas: This is a perfect...

August 17, 2016

Dodging a bullet, and what we can learn

Advocates of religious freedom just dodged a bullet in California.  Since California often influences the...

August 16, 2016

Gay marriage in Sweden: markedly higher suicide rate

Just when mainstream culture thought acceptance of gay marriage was a done deal, and that...

August 14, 2016

Darwin and the absence of human dignity

It is de rigeur among academics to disparage the unwashed masses who are suspicious of Darwin's theory.  Darwin-skeptics...

August 12, 2016

The myth of the Andalusian paradise

Often we hear of a Golden Age in Spain when Muslims were tolerant of Jews...

August 11, 2016

Where is Churchill when we need him?

The coming election has most Christians I know in despair.  Two terrible candidates.  The Democrat...

August 10, 2016

“They knew about it and did nothing”

My wife and I were walking after church in Ireland.  It was a Sunday morning in a...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

What if the Holocaust interrupted our church service?

Here is a short but powerful video based on a true story.  It moved me...

July 20, 2016

The problem and the solution

Two recent articles at Public Discourse illustrate the basic problem in our society and its only...

July 19, 2016

The men not the menu

Friends, this is the last of my series on Jesus and food laws.  (If you...

July 18, 2016

More on Galatians

While more scholars in recent years have started to notice that Galatians makes more sense...

July 17, 2016

What about Galatians?

I have not finished my exposition of Mark 7.19b.  This will continue in the next...

July 16, 2016

Ritual impurity vs spiritual impurity

We are picking up in the middle of the Mark 7 passage that we started...

July 15, 2016

Jesus defends Mosaic law

In the last few days we have seen that the early church continued to believe...

July 14, 2016

The key to Jesus’ enigmatic statement about making all foods clean

Today we will finish a few more hermeneutical observations and then get to the key...

July 13, 2016

By the usual reading, the early church ignored Jesus’ supposed abandonment of Mosaic law

Yesterday we saw that the traditional reading of Mark 7.19b ("Thus he declared all foods...

July 12, 2016

Did Jesus declare all foods clean?

That's what Mark 7.19b says in most translations: "Thus he declared all foods clean" (ESV...

July 11, 2016

Real same-sex-attracted men who chose to remain . . .

. . . in their marriages to a woman. We need to hear these stories....

July 10, 2016

The agony without the ecstasy

When I was a freshman in high school in New York City, I ran track...

July 01, 2016

Choosing to misread

Walter Bruggemann is a distinguished Old Testament scholar. His enormous prestige will help perpetuate, through...

June 2016

June 25, 2016

Pro-gay evangelicals?

Can you be "evangelical" and support gay marriage within the church?  Can you be "evangelical"...

June 24, 2016

What are the gifts of the Spirit?

Anglicans use a liturgy.  Do they allow room for the Holy Spirit?

June 22, 2016

Hypocrisy in the academy

A little earthquake just took place in the  academic community. But first, imagine the following...

June 22, 2016

A short definition of the gospel

Christians talk incessantly about the gospel, but often are hard-pressed to sum it up in...

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