Whenever Christians have pursued the comprehensive pedagogy of the Shema, it has taken form in a civilization that expresses single-minded love for God and serves as a ubiquitous exhortation to persevere in that love. Continue Reading »
Dennis Pager joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Rational Bible: Deuteronomy. Continue Reading »
The incongruity of Leonard Cohen's song “Hallelujah” with its source material creates a disconnect between its form and content. Continue Reading »
The New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition Bible translation improves upon the excellence of the NRSV in several subtle ways. Every serious Bible reader should check it out. Continue Reading »
God is the God of exodus, who hears the cries of his people, visits them in their distress, and takes vengeance against rivals. Continue Reading »
Your financial contribution will help us prepare Lady Wisdom’s sumptuous banquet and feed a secular world starved for truth. Continue Reading »
Only through tribulation does hope have its advent in the world, and all this comes to literal fulfillment in Mary. Continue Reading »
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” (1 Sam. 15:3). The question of divine violence in the Old Testament is hardly a new one for Christians. Non-Christian opponents and . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is the hope of the gospel: There is a love stronger than death, a love more jealously possessive than the grave. Continue Reading »
At a theology conference some months ago, I mentioned to a friend that, although I think Karl Barth’s doctrine of the Word of God is one of modern theology’s great triumphs, academic “Barthianism” seemed to me a dead end. My friend walked me over to an eminent Barth scholar, who promptly . . . . Continue Reading »
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