Frankly Speaking

Frank, Aubrey, Chloe, Benjamin, Abigail, Rebecca, Shane, Kaylee, Michele, last Sunday at the San Jacinto Church. Left to right, the storage ...

2009 was a good reading year. Here are three of the best books I took in: 1. Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages , by Ammon ...

This is likely my last post for this year. Maybe one more on the best books I read in 2009. Once we make it to 2010, I plan to resume the se...

I'm now several entries into a series. These posts aim to explore a particular intersection: that place where world-class Old Testament ...

During its fifty-plus years, what has Christianity Today magazine said when it comes to scholarly analysis of the Bible? My current series ...

This post is part of a series focused on evangelical Christianity's reception of, and reaction to, world-class Old Testament scholarship...

In three recent posts, I traced out the early history of evangelical Christianity in the United States: The first post describes The Beg...

The last three posts have outlined the early history of American Evangelicalism. They explain, among other things, where Christianity Today ...

So very much of the following I learned from Dr. Douglas E. Brown, Jr., whose teaching at Harding University Graduate School of Religion has...

Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan at the "Scopes Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee in the summer of 1925. Bryan died j...

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...