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August 2015

August 07, 2015

my last Patheos post…

Hi everyone, Here is the link to today's post at my new website. It's about...

August 06, 2015

ever feel like God doesn’t make sense?

C'mon over and see today's post on my new website... Pete

August 05, 2015

we have lift off…my new website is up and running!!

Hi folks. My new website, The Bible for Normal People (peteenns.com) is officially launched!! Come...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

the best defense of the Christian faith is . . .

I'm not a big fan of Christian apologetics. Nothing personal, and I know some smart people...

July 27, 2015

best book on evolution and faith I’ve read in years (or, constructing a cathedral in your mind)

I bet you thought I was going to talk about my book The Evolution of...

July 23, 2015

did Jesus know everything?

Last week I read a little book by New Testament scholar Raymond E. Brown Jesus:...

July 21, 2015

On blogging. An interview with King Solomon

I recently sat down with King Solomon, and he was kind enough to share some...

July 20, 2015

please don’t panic or cause chaos in the streets, but I have an announcement about my blog

Dear Readers, Sometime in the next week or two, I will be leaving Patheos and...

July 17, 2015

historical criticism and Christian truth are not–and cannot be–enemies

The quote below is from an article by German Old Testament scholar Konrad Schmid, "What Is the Difference Between Historical...

July 10, 2015

Peter Leithart, Biblical Criticism, and oh for heaven’s sake, seriously?

Recently, Peter Leithart expressed in satire his deep misgivings about the practice of historical criticism....

July 09, 2015

let’s talk about sexual purity and evangelical anxiety, shall we?

Today’s post is a book review of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence, by...

July 06, 2015

the challenge of teaching Bible to young Christians (or, true growth is painful)

I've been teaching the Bible to students for 20 years now. That's pretty amazing...

July 02, 2015

the (or at least “a”) problem with evangelical white churches

Below are some words of wisdom from Harvie M. Conn (1933-99) from his book Evangelism: Doing Justice...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Historical Adam: It’s Time to Stop Hiding Under a Theological Security Blanket

Over at Books and Culture, I have been participating in a roundtable discussion concerning the...

June 24, 2015

listen to what the Spirit says to my blog commenters: a vision

While painting my kitchen nonstop in high heat since Sunday and not having brushed my...

June 21, 2015

Jesus’s crucifixion: not exactly a selling point in the ancient world

If you're living in the Mediterranean world of the 1st century and you want to...

June 19, 2015

Jon Stewart on the Charleston shooting: sort of like a prophet

Last night I watched this clip of Jon Stewart commenting on the tragic shooting in...

June 17, 2015

4 thoughts about the Bible as a “human book”

Christians confess the Bible as "God's word," which means (among other things) that God had...

June 15, 2015

a faith crisis in the Bible (and don’t let some 60s hippies tell you otherwise)

In 1965, the Byrds had a big hit with a song written by Pete Seeger...

June 12, 2015

creating Adam, again and again

Today’s post is the second of two by Karl Giberson and is adapted from his...

June 10, 2015

Adam’s Fall and Early Christian Notions of Sin

Today’s post is by Karl Giberson and is adapted from his newly published Saving the...

June 08, 2015

what biblicism is and why it makes baby Jesus cry

Here is my definition of "biblicism." Biblicism is the tendency to appeal to individual biblical verses,...

June 03, 2015

did Jesus even live? a brief thought about scholarship, skepticism, and apologetics

Time and again the study of Jesus has been swamped by waves of radical scepticism--to the point of...

June 02, 2015

10 reasons why roughly 300,000,000 Americans are wrong

Dear Americans, I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day. But I digress. Shockingly, according...

June 01, 2015

dear politicians: if you claim the Christian God as your own, here’s your benchmark

Christianity has fallen on hard times in popular western culture. I get it. Christians are...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

Reading John: An Interview with Christopher Skinner

Today's post is an interview with Christopher Skinner, whose book Reading John came out last...

May 26, 2015

7 problems with a recent evangelical defense of the historicity of Genesis 1-11

Zondervan's latest volume in their popular "Counterpoints" series concerns the historicity of Genesis 1-11, Genesis: History,...

May 18, 2015

a book that actually claims there is actually a future for evangelicalism that doesn’t involve killing each other

My friend Harold Heie has a passionate commitment to fostering respectful conversations on the internet about difficult...

May 16, 2015

on being a Bibliogian©

By the power vested in me by the Internet, I hereby invent a new word,...

May 15, 2015

Changing Faith: An Interview with Michael Hidalgo

Today’s post is an interview with Michael Hidalgo, whose Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices...

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