Author: Brian S. Rosner
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN: 9780802833747
214 pages, paperback.
Several years ago I lived near a medium-sized city that was scheduled to get a new shopping mall. The area already had two or three of the typical 1980s shoe box malls, but the new one was supposed to be as high above them as they were over [...]

Jeff Fuller of the Reformed Evangelist blog knew he possessed two things anyone in ministry would love to have at the same time: seekers hungry for the Gospel and many people willing to help get it to them. All he had to do was find a way to bring those two together. In Jeff’s case, [...]

Taylor Marshall on Canterbury Tales Blog has a quick review of Pope Benedict XVI’s new book Jesus of Nazareth. Of particular interest to Westminster Theological Seminary students will be the Pope’s responses to the main points of Rabbi Jacob Neusner’s A Rabbi Talks to Jesus, required reading in Professor Stephen Taylor’s New Testament Introduction class.

Holy land tour companies routinely promote themselves to Christians with the promise that “you will never read your Bible the same again.” Having been to Israel and Jordan I can tell you that for once, the hype is true. Traveling throughout the lands where the events recorded in Scripture happened, you get a perspective of [...]

A year ago next week I finished Old Testament History & Theology II with Tremper Longman. Now many of my friends are taking part in Tremperfest: The Next Generation. In commiseration with them, I resurrect this “blast from the past” post. To see the comments of my readers to the original, go here.
This is totally [...]

Preparing us for National Poetry Month—and I know you’ve been making your plans for weeks now—my friend Mindy Withrow offers up the poem below by Billy Collins. As I read it, I wondered if we don’t too often treat the text of Scripture the same way.
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a [...]

Our dear friend and beloved teacher Mike Kelly, Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, recently gave a chapel talk on Joshua 11:1-9.
Joshua 11:1-9 depicts the final battle of the conquest campaign in the book of Joshua. This chapter presents the alliance of northern kings in familiar terms echoing other biblical narratives, [...]

OK, I know I’ve been on a bit of an evangelical feminist kick here lately. I promise you, though, after reading John Stackhouse’s Finally Feminist last weekend, I went out and split a face cord of firewood. I even spit a few times.
Over the past few days, Rick Phillips has been posting his views on [...]

My every-so-often accumulation of “stuff” I find on the web:

Before the first snow flies, I want one of these! Snow shoveling could actually be fun again.
Calvin (the other) on U.S. foreign policy.
One of Westminster’s best kept secrets: our cafe manager is a regular columnist for World magazine. Mindy Withrow has an exclusive interview on her [...]

It’s probably not through means that first come to your mind, says Mark Horne.