Frankly Speaking

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! This post is the first part of a paper whose working title is "American Evangel...

[T]he evangelical position is pledged to a scientific scholarship operating within the circle of Christian faith. No obscurantist methodolog...

Here come the holidays. You know, "the most wonderful time of the year." Alright, can we just say what everyone knows anyway? For ...

Today I'm especially grateful for the good service of our active duty military and of our veterans. Many thanks to my father, Frank H. B...

It's not too often that you read "Hogwash!" in a scholarly book review. But that's exactly one of the comments that Tim Se...

It's official. I got the letter about three weeks ago. Here's the Reader's Digest condensed version: At the September 18, 2009 m...

I know. Til now, I haven't posted anything in the entire month of September. Thanks for checking back with me. So what's been going ...

Over the past year or two, I've noticed the publication of several volumes in a new series called the Brazos Theological Commentary on t...

Yesterday was the first day of school at Amarillo College. Needless to say, for the past week or so it's been a little hectic here at th...

בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ What efforts I spent on that task (i.e., learning Hebrew), what difficulties I had...

Anyone who's ever picked up and played a solid-body electric guitar has had the great Les Paul to thank for having done so much to bring...

According to the New Testament, the first, most-basic quality of a church elder is simple: he must be trustworthy. In the words of the text,...