"This heaven! who knows what it is? (Matt 22:23) This glory! who knows what it is? It is called God's throne, God's house (John...

A post I wrote last week about Josephus was partly about the likelihood that the earliest Jewish opponents of Christianity communicated abo...

Some of my posts in recent months have been discussing Tom Schmidt's new book on Josephus and Jesus. What Schmidt addresses in that book...

What's quoted below is from Tom Schmidt's recent book on Jesus in Josephus . This is an overview of Josephus' potential sources ...

"The reason that is so is because the human soul was made to see Christ, to know Christ, to love Christ, to enjoy Christ, and to be enl...

I've written a lot over the years about how diversely John 3:5 was interpreted prior to the Reformation, contrary to the popular suggest...

I've argued, in other posts here and elsewhere, that they were. But if they weren't, what would follow? There still would have bee...

Gavin Ortlund just posted a video about how the historical evidence favors credobaptism over paedobaptism . I agree with him, and I've w...

"[My book] has weaknesses, but there are times when it is better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly. Mistakes can...

There's a constant stream of new videos, podcasts, articles, and other material coming out about the Enfield case . There are certain sk...

"Why is it that people can become emotionally and morally indignant over poverty and exploitation and prejudice and the injustice of ma...

Prayer is a large part of the Christian life, and it's discussed explicitly and often in the Biblical record from Genesis onward. The be...

I've often discussed examples of how critics of Protestantism, such as Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, disagree with the church fa...

"Only the first petition of the Lord's Prayer is a prayer for an explicit act of the human heart in response to the infinite Treasu...

There's a lot of talk in some circles about the alleged importance of having a more efficacious view of baptism. Supposedly, it's a ...

There have been a couple of occasions lately when I've heard people make comments to the effect that Jesus didn't do much apologetic...

Martin Hengel noted that "In this connection we should not forget that simply of the second-century Christian writings known to us by t...

Here's something I recently posted in a YouTube thread on the subject :

"More and more and more, America is a nation given over to play. The industries of play are huge! Houses are built today with entertain...

"In fact, Jewish sources otherwise critical of Jesus repeatedly admit that he did work what we would call ‘miracles’. We see this most ...