Some Final, Rambling Thoughts on Galatians (…and our politics)
A little over a week ago, I finished going through Galatians. At the end of that post, I mentioned I was going to write a reflective post on Galatians to finish...
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A New Book Analysis Series: Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” (Part 1)
Earlier this year, I did a book analysis series on The Deconstruction of Christianity by Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett. In their book, they included a brief di...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 5: Galatians 5:13-6:10—The Flesh vs. The Spirit)
A Brief Recap (Again)Here in Part 5 of my look at Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we now come to the “big finale” of the letter. But again, like I did in my pre...
Getting Interviewed About my Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Readers Guide to the New Testament
Today I was interviewed about my book, The Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Reader’s Guide to the New Testament. We mainly focused on the New Testament&#...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 4: Galatians 3:21-5:12—Sons or Slaves?)
A Brief Recap Thus FarBefore we move on to the next major section of Paul’s letter to the Galatians, perhaps it would be good to pause and provide a brief recap...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 3: Galatians 2:15-3:20—Faith or Torah?)
The argument in Galatians actually begins in 2:15. Everything up to this point is basically historical prologue that illustrates the theological point Paul is g...
A Dive into Galatians (Part 2: Galatians 1:1-2:14)
The Greeting (1:1-5)If you are like me (or like me when I was in high school), if and when you ever read one of Paul’s letters, you tend to skim through those i...
A Blue-Collar Bible Scholar’s Dive into Galatians (Part 1)
Back in the mid-90s, when I was a graduate student at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, I had the extreme good fortune of being able to take numero...
I Got Interviewed on “Recovering Evangelicals”
Earlier this month, I was fortunate to get interviewed on the “Recovering Evangelicals” podcast. It was a little bit about my personal faith journey...
“The Deconstruction of Christianity” by Childers and Barnett: A Book Analysis Series (Part 4: #Hope)
Finally, I’m coming to the end of my look at Deconstructing Christianity by Alisa Childers and Tim Barnett. To be honest, I have not enjoyed writing it. It’s no...