Scripture
Hopes of the dying (1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50; Luke 6:27-38)
Death is inevitable for the living. It’s also a requisite for that which is yet to live.
Leveled out (Luke 6:17-26)
Jesus comes to a level place to bring the kingdom of God to all those who are gathered.
Six traits of a pluralist Christian vision of human flourishing
Can Christianity make universal claims without being exclusivist?
A Jesus who can be hard to like (Luke 4:21-30)
What’s up with Luke’s assertive Jesus?
Grading Jesus’ first sermon (Luke 4:14-21)
As a homiletics professor, I would be inclined to give Jesus a passing grade, and not just because he is Jesus.
A strange first clue (John 2:1-11)
I think the disciples were a bit like detectives.
Water and fire (Psalm 29; Isaiah 43:1-7; Luke 3:15-17, 21-22)
John the Baptist's world and ours
A Jewish and Christian commentary on Luke’s gospel
Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington’s dialogue is most illuminating when the co-authors disagree.
N. T. Wright’s creative reconstruction of Paul and his world
Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it?
The New Testament’s christological hymns are songs of resistance
They use the conventions of Jewish resistance poetry to challenge Roman occupation.
