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  • Did God Command Genocide? (Part II)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining whether or not God commanded Israel to commit genocide in the conquest of the Promised Land. How Do We Read the Bible? : The Importance of Context Many Protestant Christians talk about reading the Bible “literally.” But I often don’t understand exactly what that means. Webster’s…

  • Did God Command Genocide? (Part I)

    The Rock Church of Saint Louis–our church home–is in the midst of reading through the entire Bible narrative as a church community. The past two weeks we have been reading the book of Joshua, which is all about Israel’s conquest of the promised land of Canaan. One feature of this conquest that contemporary Christians are…

  • The Marcion Problem: Canon and Literature Formation (Part I)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope and his influence of the formation of the New Testament canon. We now turn to the Canon and Literature Formation school, which understands Marcion not only to have been formed the notion of a Christian canon, but also to have influenced the major…

  • Book Review: Did God Really Command Genocide? (Copan and Flannagan)

    Any contemporary reader who picks up the Bible will be struck by the seeming divide between the God of Jesus Christ and the God who commands the destruction of whole nations and the obliteration of Canaanites during Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land. And while many Christians simply don’t think about the possible difficulties of…

  • Recommended Reading: July 4-10

    If you read one article this week, reflect on Rediscovering King Jesus (not King George) on the 4th by Ben Witherington III For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, consider the following selections from around the blogosphere. As always, if you think there is anything else that I should be reading, feel…

  • Reflections on Eschatology

    This post originally appeared as part of a Round Table discussion at Conciliar Post. “How and when will the world end?” My answers to this query are short and (likely) less nuanced than others might like. The world (at least, the world as we know it) will end through the paradigm altering, cosmos bending, history…

  • The Importance of Syriac Christianity

    Diversity is fascinating. The world is a big (big) place, full of all sorts of people, places, and ideas. And while certain schools of thought have elevated “diversity” to a buzzword demanding de-institutionalization and the destruction of truth claims, the term does not have to be used in such disproportionate ways. In the historic Christian…

  • The Marcion Problem: Canon Formation (Part III)

    This post is part of an ongoing series examining Marcion of Sinope and his influence of the formation of the New Testament canon. Having examined the perspectives on Harnack, Von Campenhausen, and Metzger regarding Marcion influence on the development of the Christian New Testament canon over the past couple of weeks (namely, that his conceptions…

  • Book Review: Altared (Claire and Eli)

    In Altared: The True Story of a She, a He, and How They Both Got Too Worked Up About We, Claire and Eli tell the story of their relationship, examining the expectations and presumptions that young Christian men and women often have concerning dating, how relationships work, and the importance of marriage. Claire and Eli…

  • Happy Independence Day

    Happy Independence Day to all those celebrating in the United States of America! In honor of our country’s “birthday” I’ve shared some quotes from the Founding Fathers. “Liberty . . . is the great parent of science and of virtue; and . . . a nation will be great in both always in proportion as…