The complete audio of a discussion titled “Behind the Da Vinci Code” between Richard Hays (Duke University) and Bart Ehrman (UNC Chapel Hill) is available here. (Note: Don’t right-click and save my link; go to the page and follow download instructions there.)
The title is important. This is not a discussion of The Da Vinci Code [...]

One thing for sure: we regular bloggers are a self-absorbed lot. You kind of have to be to keep churning out this stuff week after week with the hope that others actually want to go through the trouble of clicking their mice and reading it. When one spends so much time navel-gazing, one is bound [...]

Recently I did something I’d never done before: I completely eliminated a post from this blog, a post many people had already seen and commented upon. As you can see from the comments posted after I took that action, I took some heat for that decision, some of which was no doubt deserved.
This post is [...]

Maybe my next post will be “What Peter Enns Had for Breakfast This Morning.” Top 100 Evangelical Bloggers List, here I come!

For a limited time, the audio of Dr. Peter Enns’s address given upon his inauguration as full professor of Old Testament and Biblical Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary is available for free download. Listen to Bible in Context: The Continuing Vitality of Reformed Biblical Scholarship.
HT: Brandon Withrow

This past week I did something I don’t think I’ve ever done before in the 2-1/2 years I’ve been keeping this blog: I took down a post that had already been active long enough to have generated a long chain of comments by readers. I have resisted doing this in the past because a) I [...]

Here in Philly we rake leaves in the fall. What do they do in spring up in Greenville, Maine? Why, rake rocks, of course! Oh, but it is what my creative wife does with those rocks that is today’s “must see” blog post!

Columnist and culture watcher Dick Staub weighs in on what he views as the growing but not unexpected evangelical hysteria over the approaching Day of Doom: May 19 (AKA the release date of The Da Vinci Code movie).
Read his column here.
Of particular interest to me are his comments about the encouragement of a continued “us [...]

For Karyn, who knows how to wait.
“It’s really something. You oughta see it.” The camp ground attendant waggled her finger at a narrow strip of green on the map. “Ain’t too many spots like it anywhere on earth.”
We had come to Washington County, Maine, the northernmost Atlantic shore in the United States, to find some [...]

With the premier of the movie version of The Da Vinci Code less than a month away, my seminary has unveiled a new web site: thetruthaboutdavinci.com. The purpose of the site is to provide a point-by-point refutation of many things in the book and (presumably) the movie that are presented as historical “fact” about [...]