Iain Provan’s Seriously Dangerous Religion: Review and Response
There is a vibrant online debate going on between Iain Provan and myself on how the Old Testament should rightly be read. Check it out here.
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I’m a White A** Cracker: A Case Study in Privilege
(Please note that this post originally contained explicit reference to racist language which I have censored after a friend raised concerns about it. ) “So,...
Read MoreNo Going Back: Considering the Future of Theological Interpretation
Origen of Alexandria (c.185–c.243 CE) is the most influential allegorical reader of Scripture in the early church tradition. He read the entirety of the Christian...
Read MoreHistorical ≠ Necessarily Secular
In his book The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero, Joel Baden (Associate Professor of the OT at Yale Divinity) seeks to identify the real David...
Read MoreBiblical Authority and the Primacy of Love
Last week Barney succinctly presented his case that biblical authority is grounded in the early Church’s experience of God; these experiences were recorded in the Bible...
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