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The Culture Wars Are In-House Christian Debates
Note: I wrote this post two weeks before Roe vs. Wade was overturned by SCOTUS. Tom Holland’s book Dominion points to precisely how thoroughly Christianized western civilization truly is. Our atheists are just as evangelical as any protestant sect. Our secularism is a rehearsal…
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This Week in Word from the Bird
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Jun 26
Dawn of Sunday: Creating Trauma Safe Churches
My friend and colleague Dr. Scott Harrower has just released a book with some collaborators on the topic of creating trauma-friendly churches. It is called Dawn of Sunday: The Trinity and Trauma-Safe Churches. Here’s the blurb: Whether we realize it or not, our churches are full…
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New Commentary on Habbakuk
Thomas, Heath A. Habakkuk. The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018. Amazon Logos Reviewed by Andy Judd The economics of commentary writing means that seldom does a “minor” prophet like Habakkuk get his own volume. Normally he’ll be asked to share a…
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Some Parts of Evangelicalism Do Not Need To be Deconstructed ... They Need To Be Destroyed!
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Saving Inerrancy from the Americans?
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Beth Moore Becomes Anglican and Some Baptists Pick Up Pitch Forks
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Lessons from The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
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Speaking Up for Beth Allison Barr ... Again
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John Piper, Wives, and Harsh Husbands
A few weeks ago, Pastor John Piper answered a question from a woman about how a wife should respond to a “harsh” husband. I thought Piper’s response was…
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New Birds of a Feather Episode
Listen now (33 min) | In the latest episode of Birds of a Feather, Aimee Byrd and I discuss: - Women and leggings - Should women get pastoral degrees …
Jun 23
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New Testament Theology: Too Theological, Too Difficult, and Too Repetitive?
Thanks to Joel Green for acting as a guest editor for the journal Religions and inviting me to contribute to a special issue on New Testament Theology…
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Why A Denial of Biological Sex is a Threat to Women
Today in the news, the world international swimming body FINA voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes, making that decision with a…
Jun 20
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This Week in Word from the Bird
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Jun 19
Open Communion?
The Episcopal Church (TEC) in the USA is currently considering a proposal to drop the requirement for those who receive communion to be baptized…
Jun 17
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Free Course on Responding to Family and Domestic Violence for Churches
Hi everyone, as an Aussie public theologian I tend to advocate for a lot of topics. Some of it is Australian-centric, like the need for gambling reform…
Jun 16
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Ephesians as Pauline Halakhah
This semester I’ve been teaching through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and I was once again struck by the prevalence of the “walking” language that…
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Some Parts of Evangelicalism Do Not Need To be Deconstructed ... They Need To Be Destroyed!
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Saving Inerrancy from the Americans?
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Beth Moore Becomes Anglican and Some Baptists Pick Up Pitch Forks
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Lessons from The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
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Speaking Up for Beth Allison Barr ... Again
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The Case for Post-Patriarchal Manhood:
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