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The blog of the week goes to Steve McCoy who, unknown to me, sitting in my office when Don Hagner and I were talking about divorce and remarriage, videotaped us and has now posted a video of it — with his ongoing need to nap during our riveting discussion.

One of the advantages of spending a weekend with my friends in Philadelphia is experiencing how others sleep. Both of my roommates, sometime past midnight, decided to begin snoring — as I waited for the slumbers of sleep to wash over me. One of them, whose initials are BJ, began quickly and made fast work…

Here it is: in Matt 5:38-42 Jesus summons those who want to follow him to a radical way of life. They are to avoid, at all costs, seeking revenge. Jesus sets it up by quoting Exod 21:24 (or its other citations) — eye for an eye text, and flat-out challenges its applicability for his followers…

Our entire Dept is attending the SBL/AAR meetings this weekend in Philadelphia. I’ll be giving a paper in response to James D.G. Dunn’s Jesus Remembered on Friday morning at the ETS meetings, and then Saturday morning I’ll respond to John Miller’s book, Jesus at Thirty. It looks like we’ll have access to the internet in…

One of my children was in the habit, as a child, of saying this: “I mean it.” When challenged a little more: “I really mean it.” And when a little more: “I really, really mean it.” Which means, when saying “I mean it” it was not fully meant. Jesus summoned those who wanted to follow…

How about that? It is the 16th and it just dawned on me that you are still three years older!

We have now received over 150 applications for our advertised opening in the Biblical and Theological Studies Department. We will not be interviewing at the SBL/AAR meetings in Philadelphia this weekend, but are hoping to contact in mid-December those who will be invited to campus. With this many applications our process has been slowed down.

This week we had Professor Donald A. Hagner on campus for the Zarley Lectures in biblical theology. Some local pastors stopped in, but mostly it was a chapel filled with students. Professor Hagner spoke on Jewish-Christian relations in light of both Paul’s theology and the quest for the historical Jesus.

For me, the most important thing about a happy marriage is that husbands and wives be best friends — with no serious rival to that friendship. Kris and I have been married for 32 years; we were grade school sweethearts and we started “officially” dating when we were sophomores in high school, and we are…

For Pastors and churches that used the Jesus Creed for a Bible study or more in your church (this is not for individuals who used this, but for churches): If you would like to be in the “Pastor’s Circle” for our forthcoming books, please send the following to [email protected]: Name Church’s name or Organization’s name:…
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