Ithilien

This article argues that it is, but I think the argument is pretty much bunk. Christians do indeed make specific historical claims, but t...

I have now finished reading through Isaiah in Hebrew (I did this quite a while ago, actually, and have been making heavy work of Jeremiah so...

I haven't posted for a while because I've been working on articles on the Reformation for the next Christian History issue, among ot...

Chapter 7 of Payton's Getting the Reformation Wrong  focuses on the Anabaptists and other radical groups. His main point here seems to b...

James Payton's 2010 book Getting the Reformation Wrong  has a provocative title (one I would love to have used myself). Much of the book...

I translated this letter some years ago for Dave Armstrong, who had cited parts of it from Hartmann Grisar. This led to a debate between me ...

I've been reading through the Bible in Hebrew for many years now, and I'm just over half way through. In the Jewish ordering of the ...

Jonathan Huddleston, an old and dear friend of mine who is an OT scholar, has challenged the picture of OT revelation that I gave (somewhat...

So the Internet has been buzzing these past few weeks--my corner of it at least--with discussion of Larycia Hawkins, the Wheaton College pol...

I first met David Steinmetz in April 1995, more than twenty years ago. I was not quite 21; he was nearly 59. (It is sobering to realize that...

When I got out of graduate school, I applied to a Christian college, Where I found it was the golden rule To integrate faith and knowledg...

I was invited to participate in a panel of responses to Pope Francis' upcoming visit to the U.S. Here it is. The title I would have cho...

I hadn't planned to write a formal blog post about Kim Davis. I've gotten involved in several conversations about her on FB recently...