Frankly Speaking

I want to say "Thank you" for your recent comments. I really appreciate hearing what others have to say. Stemming from a lot of di...

e-mer-gent - "in the process of coming into being" I've been wondering. What exactly is it about the so-called "Emergent...

In yesterday's post, I brought up the subject of ethics and evangelism. Here's a follow-up. Sixteen years ago I was a student in D...

The latest issue of The Christian Chronicle includes a story about the marginal numeric growth of the Churches of Christ in the United Stat...

More than twenty years have passed. But it doesn't seem like much has changed. I'm talking about what historian Mark Noll described ...

"For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we...

A new article by Old Testament scholar Carolyn J. Sharp got me thinking about the importance of writing. The title of the piece is "Vo...

Once there was "Old Blogger." It was frustrating at times. But you came to expect certain problems, and when they cropped up, you ...

Yesterday my mother emailed me: “Joe Lemmons died today . . . He was 85. We will pray for them.” Every person has an unwritten list of nam...

I was mildly complaining at another blog that in his new book on Evil and the Justice of God , N. T. Wright never mentions if he thinks ther...

The Old Testament class I teach is billed as a first-year college course. As such, it should overview the content of the Old Testament, ple...

I got “tagged” by Wade Tannehill . Now I’m supposed to tell about five odd or interesting things about me that people would not ordinarily k...