My latest collection of randomness from my wilderness wanderings across the ‘net. Offerings are thin this time, but thin is good after Thanksgiving, right?:

The IVP New Testament Commentaries are now online at BibleGateway!
Congrats to my friend Daniel Kirk on the publication of part two of his two-part article “The Sufficiency of the Cross: The Law, [...]

Here’s the latest collection of randomness I’ve picked up along the way….

If you haven’t read Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ amazing story of teaching his brain to overcome an incurable speech disorder, your Internet must have been down all week.
The JollyBlogger says that N. T. Wright’s concept that the “astonishing generosity” Christ calls us to in [...]

The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us…The alternative consciousness to be nurtured, on the one hand, serves to criticize in dismantling the dominant consciousness…On the other hand, that alternative consciousness to be nurtured serves to [...]

A recent news article reported on some of the main themes in Mark Noll’s latest book, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Among his conclusions Noll argues that the Civil War irreperably undermined the Bible as the chief moral authority for the United States. Up until the war, he says, most Americans assumed that [...]

Next weekend Karyn and I will be traveling down to D.C. for the opening day of In the Beginning: Bibles Before 1000, an exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute. Not only will we be viewing the collection, but we will also be attending a symposium conducted by “an internationally distinguished [...]

An intriguing quote from Terry Eagleton (quoted in “Speech Acts and Prophetic Discourse” by Walter Houston, Biblical Interpretation 1, 2 ([1993]):
…all good prophets are false prophets, undoing their own utterances in the very act of producing them. In terms of J. L. Austin’s How to Do Things with Words, prophetic utterances of Jonah’s sort are [...]

Looking at the Schofield KJV Reference Bible I had in high school (complete with my own hand-drawn “Chronology of the End Times” chart inside the back cover), I realized how easily drawn I have been over the years to various schemes for reading the Bible. The catch always is if you don’t have the scheme, [...]

Has it ever struck you that there are a lot of stories in the Bible that just don’t read like we expect good stories to read? Plot lines appear out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly. Characters are introduced only to pass from the scene without any development. Incidents are recounted with no clear [...]