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This Week in Word from the Bird

When the Censorship Industrial Complex Refused to Play By Its Own Rules

Prayers for a New Year

Todd Talk with Michael Bird

Jesus: Living Exegesis of God

The Christology of Christmas

Christmas Greetings and Special Christmas Video

Six Things You Probably Did Not Know About Augustine

My Favourite Christmas Hymn and Favourite Christmas Reading

This Week in Word from the Bird

My Plans for 2024

Jesus, John the Baptist, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Advent Reflection - 1: Why Biblical Scholars Love Christmas!

Wayne Grudem Calls on Republicans to Dump Trump without Denouncing Trump

My Interview with Remnant Radio about Luke-Acts

Review of David Gushee's Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies

Review of David Gushee's Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies

This Week in Word from the Bird

Testifying to the Truth in a Post-Truth Age

Jesus among the gods

Mission is the Shape of Water

This Week in Word from the Bird

Did the Syro-Phoenician Woman Change Jesus's Mind?

ETS and SBL Review

Publication Day for A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts

Six Things You Did Not Know About the Oriental Orthodox Churches

Why Did Saul of Tarsus Persecute Christians?

How I Changed My Mind on Woke

Things to do at ETS/IBR/SBL

Top Posts at Word from the Bird

The Dangers of the Politicization of Medicine

This Week in Word from the Bird

Jesus the Wise Man

Is Mike Johnson the Christian Nationalist Boogeyman?

Big Event! Is There Hope for Evangelicalism?

Six Things About Anglicanism You Did Not Know!

The Case for Gracism

This Week in Word from the Bird

Men and Women as Partners in Ministry

Why is the World So Focused on the Israel-Gaza Conflict?

Facebook is Not Your Church Community

Six Things I Bet You Did Not Know About the Council of Nicaea

This Week in Word from the Bird

Advice for How to Read News About the Israel-Gaza Conflict

Living the Kingdom - Jesus and Ethics

Was Paul a Nobody?

Six Things You Probably Did Not Know About Luke-Acts

This Week in Word from the Bird

What to Say and What to Pray about Israel and Gaza?

Catholics and All the Kingdoms of the World

Jesus, God's only-begotten Son?

New Fragment of Sayings of Jesus

Six Things You Probably Did Not Know About the Byzantine Empire

This Week in Word from the Bird

Another Meeting of the Aviary is Coming!

Jesus's Cleansing of the Temple

A Godless Age and its Theocratic Religion

My View on The Voice to Parliament

Six Things I Bet You Did Not Know About Constantine

This Week in Word from the Bird

Someone Needs to Grab America By the Bible

What Makes a Great Teacher?

The Epistle to Diognetus - An Introduction

Six Things I Bet You Did Not Know About the Apostle Paul!

This Week in Word from the Bird

Church and Gender After the Barbie Movie

This Weeks Cast Blast

Markus Barth on the Lord's Supper

Can Egalitarians and Complementarians Do Church Together?

Perfect Tense Fallacies

This Week in Word from the Bird

The Triumphal Entry - What Really Happened?

Hebrews in a Nutshell

Why A Government with “Christian Values” Might Not Be So Good

Who is Artemis of the Ephesians?

Major on the Minor Prophets

This Week in Word from the Bird

New Now and Not Yet Episode

Denmark to Ban Public Burning of the Bible and Quran

Youth Pastors Are Not Apprentices

Shiny Happy People - A Review

What was it like to Be a Christian in the first century?

This Week in Word from the Bird

New Episode of Now and Not Yet

The Christian Case for Liberal Democracy

The Origins of New Testament Christology

Progressive Support for Muslims is Faltering … Just As I Predicted!

Lectures, Podcasts, and Sermons

This Week in Word from the Bird

New Not and Not Yet Episode

The Great Unchurching?

Dismantling Adoptionist Christology

Artemis of Ephesus: Why Her Identity Matters

Evangelicals and Politics - Part Two

John Wesley on Preaching the Gospel

This Week in Word from the Bird

New Now and Not Yet Episode

Nordic Bishops' Statement on Human Sexuality

Holiness as a Way of Life

Evangelicals and Politics - Part 1

Barbie: The Movie - A Review by Someone Who Wanted to Like It But Sadly Didn't

This Week in Word from the Bird

New Now and Not Yet Episode

Brave New Bible: AI and Bible Studies

David Capes on Colossians 1:15-20

The Evangelical Imagination

New Episode of the Now and the Not Yet

Simon Gathercole: The Gospel and the Gospels

This Week in Word from the Bird

Unpastoral Pastors and Pastoral Women

Paul within Judaism - FREE ACCESS

Why Were the Gospels Written?

If Justin Trudeau Wrote Revelation 5

What does it mean to be holy?

Roman Attitudes Towards Sexual Assault

New Birds of a Feather Episode

Advice for Complementarians in Egalitarian Churches

This Week's Cast Blast

Sandra Glahn on Artemis of the Ephesians and 1 Timothy 2

This Week in Word from the Bird

Do Men Need Some Chivalry?

Podcast Recommendations for You

Advice for Egalitarians in Complementarian Churches

Pre-Order A Bird's Eye-View of Luke-Acts

Is Christianity True or Just Useful?

This Week in Word from the Bird

Jesus the Armed Revolutionary?

Meet Polycarp: Bishop, Martyr, Destroyer of the Gods

This Week's Cast Blast

Is the gospel believed or obeyed?

This Week in Word from the Bird

Revenge is a Dish Best Served ... Never

Invite your friends to read Word from the Bird

Divine Absence and Divine Comedy

What does "for" mean in "Christ died for our sins"?

This Week in Word from the Bird

Where Have All the Pacifists Gone?

AI and Religion

Is It Time to Stop Singing Hillsong Music?

This Week's Cast Blast

Public Displays of the Ten Commandments and Martin Luther King

This Week in Word from the Bird

Is "Tribal" Complementarianism Coherent?

Nijay Gupta on Philippians 2:6-11

The Times and Crimes of Elegabalus

This Week's Cast Blast

Why Trinitarian Debates Really Do Matter!

This Week in Word from the Bird

Thoughts on Uganda's Anti-LGBTI Laws

Acts 9-11: An Overview

Take Thee to A Nunnery: Why Visiting A Convent Might Be Good For You!

This Week's Cast Blast

The Other Barth: On Markus Barth

This Week in Word from the Bird

Canada's MAID is Proof of a Post-Christian Era

Another Meeting of the Aviary!

A Reformed View of Justification: But Which One?

This Week's Cast Blast

Why Read Ignatius of Antioch?

This Week in Word from the Bird

The Sectarian Temptation

5 Reasons to Be Anglican!

God Pod Cast Blast # 2

If Donald Trump Wrote the Sermon on the Mount

A Bird's-Eye View of Luke and Acts

This Week in Word from the Bird

What's the Deal with Drag Queen Story Hour?

Big News! Unlimited Atonement is Unleashed

A Declaration of War Against the Gambling Cartels

The Church in a Digital Age: Danger or Opportunity?

New! God-Pod Cast Blast # 1

Ben Witherington on Paul and Supersessionism

This Week in Word from the Bird

An Ode to America as Utopian Dystopia

Why Secularism Only Works in Christianized Countries

Exalted Angels and Subordination in Phil 2:6-11

Why We Need an Ecumenical Council on Anthropology

This Week in Word from the Bird

Who Should We Disobey? Part Three: Post-Liberal Progressives

The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius

A Theological Argument for Acknowledgement of Country

This Week in Word from the Bird

Constitutional Monarchy, Chess, and Tyranny

Who Should We Disobey? Part Two: Christian Nationalists

A Light to the Nations: The Scriptural Origins of Christian Mission

Christian Nationalism Round-Up

7 Myths about Paganism

This Week in Word from the Bird

Who Should We Disobey? Part One: Fascists and Communists

Nijay Gupta on 1 Tim 2:11-15

Breaking the Stained Glass Ceilings

This Week in Word from the Bird

Does Justification by Faith Still Matter?

Five Things I Wish Egalitarians Knew About Complementarianism

Why I Believe in Political Pluralism

This Week in Word from the Bird

How Shall We Be Governed? A Primer on Political Theology

Women as Pastor/Patrons of Early House Churches

Join me on Notes

Pagan Sex: Patriarchy, Power, and Penetration

This Week in Word from the Bird

Raised for our Justification

The Cross: The Kingdom of God in Power

Books, Books, Books

My Edited Books

Parenting, Autism, and Church

How I Approach the Trans Debate: Compassion, Reason, Scripture

The Social Gospel of Jesus

What is Kenosis?

Dating the Book of Revelation: Apocalypse Against Which Emperor?

This Week in Word from the Bird

Types of Progressive Christianity

Gnostic Interpretation of the Jewish Law: Ptolemy's Letter to Flora

How Things Go Wrong with Metaphorical Reasoning in Ephesians 5

Story of My Books # 23 - Religious Freedom in a Secular Age

The Real Story Behind "The Da Vinci Code"

Women and the Gender of God

How Useful Are "Love Languages"?

Reading the Martyrdom of Polycarp

Final Thoughts on the TGC Sex Article

This Week in Word from the Bird

Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church

Christian Persecution in Antiquity

The Trinity in the Book of Revelation

This Week in Word from the Bird

193 AD - The Year of the Five Emperors

TGC, Sex, and Christ

Interviews about Jesus among the gods

Meals, Martyrs, Magic and Mission - Acts 6-8

The Story of My Books #22 - 7 Things About the Bible I Wish All Christians Knew

This Week in Word from the Bird

The Roman Sex Economy

Saddleback Church, Women Pastors, and Baptist Polity

The Story of My Books # 21 - Evangelical Theology 2nd Edition

Righteousness as Imputed or Imparted?

This Week in Word from the Bird

1 Tim 2:11-15 - Seven Crucial Questions

Three Things that Will Make You Think

Is God Male? Sane Reflections on a Crazy Debate

Story of My Books # 20 - Philippians

This Week in Word from the Bird

Goldingay on Genesis

Is Polyamory Going to Be the Next Big Thing?

Faithful Disobedience

My Forthcoming Books This Year

This Week in Word from the Bird

A World in Convulsions: An Introduction to the Roman Empire in the Third Century

Conspicuous in His Absence: Studies in the Song of Songs and Esther

Why I Love My Southern Baptist Friends and How I'd Like to "Fix" Them

This Week in Word from the Bird

What does the New Testament say about Child Abuse?

The First Meeting of the Aviary

Story of My Books # 19 - The New Testament in its World

An Ancient Joke About Crucifixion

Jordan Peterson on the Logos in Ephesus

Q&A Video and Zoom Party?

Story of My Books # 18: Jesus the Eternal Son

Was There "Belief" in Greco-Roman Religion?

This Week in Word from the Bird

The New Testament and Sexual Culture in Antiquity

Jesus as "Equal with God"?

Hallowed: Echoes of the Psalms in the Lord’s Prayer

N.T. Wright - Why women should be church leaders and preachers

What I'm Reading in 2023

Always with Us: What Jesus Really Says About the Poor