by Jack Moline | Feb 4, 2021 | Opinion
Especially when discussing technology, I often find myself saying to someone, “I know the meaning of every word you just said, but I do not understand a thing about how they fit together.” Actually, that is mostly true. As often as not, the most confusing part is a...
by Tony C. Cartledge | Jan 13, 2021 | Opinion
Those of us who participated in or at least lived through the hot debates on “inerrancy” that divided the Southern Baptist Convention will recall that a favorite term of its adherents was (and is) theopneustos, a rare word that appears only once in the Bible, in 2...
by Helen Paynter | Dec 2, 2020 | Opinion
An email from someone I had never met arrived in my inbox in February 2019. We’ll call her Jenny. She had heard me speaking on a series of podcasts produced by the Bible Society, talking about some of the stories of sexually violent men in the Old Testament. As a...
by Helen Paynter | May 28, 2019 | Opinion
“There’s just so much wrath in the Bible!” “The God of the Old Testament is so different from the God of the New Testament!” “Why is there so much violence in the Old Testament?” If I had an English pound for every time someone had said something like this to me, I’d,...
by Jim Dant | May 21, 2019 | Opinion
Very few biblical scholars will deny the possibility – even if only the slightest possibility in the minds of the most conservative scholars – that the biblical texts used to condemn LGBTQ persons have been overplayed. Most Christian students of the Bible will concede...
