Since 1) most dissertations are little read, 2) my blog is little read, 3) I like jotting down exegetical thoughts, 4) I have views I want to promote, and 5) I value interaction, I'm going to share a few exegetical tidbits that occur to me while I write my...
Mark Ward
Going into Treatment for Addiction
I'm going into treatment for a small addiction I have. It's called e-mail. While I'm working on more important things than e-mail, my serotonin levels drop until the urge to check e-mail is uncontrollable. Just kidding! About the "uncontrollable" part, that is. But...
Some Humbling Advice
Here's some humbling advice I read from Iain Murray. I boiled it down to what was most humbling and pointed for my own heart: Read the best books and only the best and read them with a pencil in your hand or with some other system so you can recall even years later...
Godless in the New York Times
I love the New York Times, I really do. It's just quality. And I think articles supporting my positions are more powerful when written from the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; e.g., check out this one from a while back. (I'm sorry, but I can't stand...
Divine Light Show
The God of all creation put on a beautiful show for me and my wife last night. Here are just two shots of that show I got from our front porch!
Frame on Enns
John Frame has an excellent review of Peter Enns's Inspiration and Incarnation that he just posted to his website. (Thanks to Brian Collins for these excerpts.) Regarding the first section of the book, Frame says, "I think the 'problems' are artificially created by...
My Wedding Vows
Originally my thinking about wedding vows ran like this: The Bible doesn't require a church wedding; it's more the best of my cultural tradition that I'm honoring when I don a tux and Laura a white gown. That cultural tradition is primarily English, as are the vows...
Stanley Fish and the Norming Norm
Who gets to define "normal"? Some in the deaf community do not want cochlear implants because giving them hearing would deny their identity. One sufferer of autism likewise wrote that the doctors searching for a cure for his condition are well nigh guilty of attempted...
“Fundamentalist” vs. “Critical”
Some startling headlines are coming out about a major international survey of attitudes toward the Bible. Fundamentalists, it seems, don't know their Bibles as well as Christians (and even non-Christians?) of the more liberal sort. They think Jesus wrote the Gospels...
Married, Hitched, Plunged
I am married. I have gotten hitched. I have taken the plunge. It was well worth it. I wish I had done this long ago. Laura is the best wife I could ever have hoped for, far better than I knew—and I aim to find out more. I wanted greater holiness for myself out of this...