14+ hour, 50+ min ago   (727+ words) In recent years, evangelicals have shown renewed interest in the hermeneutics of the Church Fathers. Current scholarship has devoted considerable attention to premodern approaches to reading Scripture, but fewer works describe the method behind their practice. Yet the fourfold sense…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1001+ words) A growing tribalism in evangelicalism has made a lot of Christian leaders and their followers skeptical of one another. Over the last 20 years, and especially in the last decade, it seems togetherness has largely been replaced by a growing hypertribalism....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (990+ words) Listen to the author read his article. I have a confession to make: Like many others today, I’m strongly tempted toward doomerism. It’s cliché, but we live in interesting (and therefore anxious) times. Yet the times seem not only anxious…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (531+ words) Can the Bible be funny? It’s one of those questions Christians love to debate, and it was on my mind as I sat down to watch The Promised Land, a situation comedy in which the situation is ancient Israel’s 40 years…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (897+ words) Critical biblical scholarship has sometimes driven a wedge between Jesus and Paul. Some claim, for example, that Paul’s version of the gospel is different from the Gospel’s presentation of Jesus. The book of Romans presents a remarkably comprehensive survey of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (758+ words) To the extent that Ehrman stays focused on his main thesis, he makes an engaging argument. However, that thesis is often crowded out by Ehrman’s conspiratorial theories about Christianity’s history and complaints that Christians aren’t living up to his narrow…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1066+ words) I asked her to reflect on her passion for studying the Old Testament, best practices for studying Joshua, and why we can all benefit from studying this often quoted yet easily misunderstood book. Most of my students fall into one…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (975+ words) So which is it? Is Christianity in America experiencing a resurgence or a collapse? This is precisely the problem with watching religious trends. And it’s the reason, after two decades of writing about such trends, I’ve become hesitant to give…...