It’s the weekend, October 16th to be exact, and if you’ve been following my blog lately, you know what that means! Another installment in my book analysis series on Stephen De Young’s The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century. Here in Part 5, I’m going to be covering De Young’s Chapter…
This is somewhat of a random post, but it involves something that has been buzzing around in my mind for quite some time. The specific impetus for this post has to do with something that someone I do not know posted on the Alumni Facebook page of one of the graduate schools I attended. I…
Another weekend means another installment in my book analysis series on Stephen De Young’s The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century. Since this is Part 4 and I’m only beginning Chapter 2 of Young’s book, this post is going to cover a lot—and I mean A LOT—of ground. In my previous…
It’s the weekend, and that means yet another installment in my book analysis series on Stephen De Young’s The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century. In my previous post, I detailed De Young’s argument that in both the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism itself, there was a clear belief that…
It’s the end of the week, so it’s time for another post in my book analysis series on Stephen De Young’s The Religion of the Apostles. I ended my last post by introducing the initial argument of De Young in his first chapter, namely that far from Christianity “inventing” the idea of a triune God…
As we head into the Fall of 2022, I thought I would embark on another book analysis on Stephen De Young’s The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox Christianity in the First Century. Even as I write this, I am not yet done with the book, but based on what I’ve read thus far, I know…
It’s hard to believe, but it has been two months since my last post. On top of that, I’ve written only one post in the past three months. The reason is fairly simple: I moved. My last few posts were somewhat raw and personal because the move marked a major “turning the corner” in my…
Last month I wrote a post entitled, “A Reflection: Disappointment…and Why I Don’t Like May or June.” It was somewhat of a personal post about some of the hardships and disappointments I’ve faced over the past few years. I received a number of encouraging responses to that post. Now, I haven’t written much on my…
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this video on YouTube in which Frank Schaeffer was talking with Ken Medema back in 2016 at the Wild Goose Festival, essentially an arts and music festival geared toward more of a progressive/liberal form of Christianity. The reason the video caught my eye was because both men…
Over the past 16 years, I’ve realized that I’ve come to not really like the months of May or June. And here I am, in early June 2022, contemplating why that is so. Sixteen years ago, on June 3, 2006, I got married. Without going into any personal details, it was a marriage that was…