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Poems for a difficult life of faith
Like Paul, Spencer Reece has journeyed to see what he would suffer as a servant of Christ.
Some good press for Paul
Biblical scholar Susan Grove Eastman brings the apostle into conversation with today’s world.
Was Paul disabled?
Isaac Soon employs a sociocultural model of disability as a lens for reading the apostle’s letters.
Take & Read: New Testament
New books about the New Testament
Paul’s lost letters
We’ll never know what he wrote to the churches at Jerusalem or Caesarea Maritima.
Why was the apostle Paul in prison so often?
Perhaps for the same reasons people are today.
by Sarah Jobe
Luke Timothy Johnson wants us to read Paul in all his complexity
“What advantage do we gain by possessing a Pauline theology that lies outside and above his writings?”
Nijay K. Gupta interviews Luke Timothy Johnson
Four views of Paul’s letter to the Romans
In Preaching Romans, a range of scholars present their perspectives in complementary ways.
by Jessica Young
Matthew L. Skinner recommends the best recently published books in his field.
selected by Matthew L. Skinner
In Romans 7, sin seems to have at least as much agency as Paul does.
By Steve Thorngate
An annotated list by Beverly Roberts Gaventa.
reviewed by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner