by James Gordon | Mar 3, 2020 | Opinion
One of the up-and-coming New Testament scholars in the United States was asked in a Facebook profile to name the most influential mentor or teacher he encountered. The name he gave was Luke Timothy Johnson, one of the more prolific scholars on early Christianity. One...
by James Gordon | Dec 16, 2019 | Opinion
I first came across the name Abraham Joshua Heschel while reading early books by Walter Brueggemann. It was Heschel’s work on the prophets he cited. It’s a remarkable exposition of the Hebrew mind in prophetic mode, when the world is looked at with God on the horizon,...
by James Gordon | Jul 29, 2019 | Opinion
Standing in the grass lane between two high hedges. On the right, and on the other side of the hedge, the 18th century rose garden. On the left, and over the hedge, is the 17th century rose garden. Between them, this motorway of manicured grass, and at the...
by James Gordon | Jun 18, 2019 | Opinion
Many very fine histories exist of the Plymouth Brethren and the several offshoots in the 19th and 20th centuries. The classic is by Roy Coad, but more recently and with considerably more historical documentation, there are the volumes by Neil Dickson (Scotland) and...
by James Gordon | Nov 12, 2018 | Opinion
It isn’t often I quote Breitbart as a source, but this time I wanted to nail the source. Notice the piercing, violent metaphor of steel hitting steel into wood. I’ll come back to that. So, here’s the quote, straight from the mouth of President Donald...
