PODCAST: Daniel Was a Man – the Historicity of the Prophet Daniel
Posted onA brief look at the Old Testament book of Daniel, its late date by critical scholars, and arguments for the early date which it claims […]
PODCAST: For Three Redactions, Even for Four — Amos and the Documentary Hypothesis
Posted onAs an addendum to the previous podcast discussing the Documentary Hypothesis and the Pentateuch, I recorded this brief excursus on the book of Amos to […]
Erasmus on the “Problem of the Turk”
Posted onI recently came across a small treatise by the 16th century Christian humanist Desiderius Erasmus–the same Erasmus who gave us the Textus Receptus (the New […]
PODCAST: A Priest and a Deuteronomist Walk Into a Bar – the Documentary Hypothesis
Posted onWe examine the Documentary Hypothesis of the Pentateuch–the idea that the first five books of the Bible did not originate with Moses but were originally […]
AUDIO: My interview on Ordinary Folk podcast
Posted onI was recently interviewed on the Ordinary Folk podcast. We talked about theology, politics, the relationship between church and state, and superheroes. Click the image […]
PODCAST: The Transcendence Argument – The Self-Disclosure of the God of Israel
Posted onPiggybacking on the ideas of Yehezkel Kaufmann and John Oswalt, this argument builds on the uniqueness of the ancient Israelite claims about the divine to […]
How Shall We Then Vote?
Posted onThere seem to be two basic attitudes in the church in regard to the question of how Christians should vote. The first is that politics […]
Michael Sattler: Radical Christian
Posted onThough Protestants have in more recent years come around to the principle of separation of church and state, this was not so in the beginning. […]
Can You Lose Your Salvation?
Posted onIt is popular within evangelicalism today to think of salvation in terms of a “once saved, always saved” framework. However, the author of the biblical […]
Why Jesus Is Better Than the Old Covenant
Posted onAt this point in history Christian evangelism to the Jewish people is something of a minefield. Because Christian-identifying gentiles have so often oppressed Jews, any […]