Life would be so much simpler were it not for the Bible. There are, of course, the obvious difficulties that Scripture gives us—all that about loving God and lo...
For the previous post in this series, click here.
*Before I move into Galatians, a quick additional point to my previous post on the Gospels that I forgot ...
Is regretting our sins and crying out for forgiveness true repentance? I used to think that a dinnertime prayer of “Dear Lord, I’m sorry. Please forgive me,...
This summer, I thought a lot about the problem of foreknowledge and free will. If God knows what we're going to do beforehand - as certainly seems to be the...
From what I’ve heard, this week has been a hard one for almost everyone. Midterms are starting; the necessity of finding a J-term program is looming; the first ...
For the first two parts in this series, see here and here.
Today I aim to briskly scan the four canonical Gospels of the New Testament for what light the...
The notion of the messiah as a prophet is similarly criticized, but there is strong evidence in Jewish scripture that the Prophet was a role the Messiah wou...
"ejection of the supernatural should not be a part of scientific methodology.... cientists should be free to pursue hypotheses as they see fit, without bein...
In this series, I attempt to assess Second-Temple-era Jewish messianic expectation. Start at Part I or see all parts in the series.
The case for Jesus...
Joseph Haydn was not a genius, Professor Robert Levin told our class. He was not born with the automatic brilliance of a Mozart or a Beethoven. He did not have ...
