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August 2015

August 07, 2015
Hi everyone, Here is the link to today's post at my new website. It's about...
August 06, 2015
C'mon over and see today's post on my new website... Pete
August 05, 2015
Hi folks. My new website, The Bible for Normal People (peteenns.com) is officially launched!! Come...

July 2015

July 29, 2015
I'm not a big fan of Christian apologetics. Nothing personal, and I know some smart people...
July 27, 2015
I bet you thought I was going to talk about my book The Evolution of...
July 23, 2015
Last week I read a little book by New Testament scholar Raymond E. Brown Jesus:...
July 21, 2015
I recently sat down with King Solomon, and he was kind enough to share some...
July 20, 2015
Dear Readers, Sometime in the next week or two, I will be leaving Patheos and...
July 17, 2015
The quote below is from an article by German Old Testament scholar Konrad Schmid, "What Is the Difference Between Historical...
July 10, 2015
Recently, Peter Leithart expressed in satire his deep misgivings about the practice of historical criticism....
July 09, 2015
Today’s post is a book review of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence, by...
July 06, 2015
  I've been teaching the Bible to students for 20 years now. That's pretty amazing...
July 02, 2015
Below are some words of wisdom from Harvie M. Conn (1933-99) from his book Evangelism: Doing Justice...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
Over at Books and Culture, I have been participating in a roundtable discussion concerning the...
June 24, 2015
While painting my kitchen nonstop in high heat since Sunday and not having brushed my...
June 21, 2015
If you're living in the Mediterranean world of the 1st century and you want to...
June 19, 2015
Last night I watched this clip of Jon Stewart commenting on the tragic shooting in...
June 17, 2015
Christians confess the Bible as "God's word," which means (among other things) that God had...
June 15, 2015
In 1965, the Byrds had a big hit with a song written by Pete Seeger...
June 12, 2015
Today’s post is the second of two by Karl Giberson and is adapted from his...
June 10, 2015
Today’s post is by Karl Giberson and is adapted from his newly published Saving the...
June 08, 2015
Here is my definition of "biblicism." Biblicism is the tendency to appeal to individual biblical verses,...
June 03, 2015
Time and again the study of Jesus has been swamped by waves of radical scepticism--to the point of...
June 02, 2015
Dear Americans, I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day. But I digress. Shockingly, according...
June 01, 2015
Christianity has fallen on hard times in popular western culture. I get it. Christians are...

May 2015

May 28, 2015
Today's post is an interview with Christopher Skinner, whose book Reading John came out last...
May 26, 2015
Zondervan's latest volume in their popular "Counterpoints" series concerns the historicity of Genesis 1-11, Genesis: History,...
May 18, 2015
My friend Harold Heie has a passionate commitment to fostering respectful conversations on the internet about difficult...
May 16, 2015
By the power vested in me by the Internet, I hereby invent a new word,...
May 15, 2015
Today’s post is an interview with Michael Hidalgo, whose Changing Faith: Questions, Doubts and Choices...
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