The Liberty Bell was rung to announce the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776 All the information below is taken directly from The New Testament In Its World, NT Wright and Mike Bird, Zondervan/SPCK, 2020 The dense and dramatic argument of Galatians excites and confuses readers. This letter is… Continue reading Galatians – The New Testament In Its World – Wright and Bird
The Conversion of Saint Paul by Domenico Morelli, 1876. The reason Paul was ‘doing theology’ was not that he happened to have the kind of brain that delighted in playing with and rearranging large, complex abstract ideas. He was doing theology because the life of God’s people depended on it, depended on his doing it… Continue reading A Primer on Pauline Theology
Like most of us, there is a secret story in my life that will not be fully told until we are gathered around the heavenly cabin with the Carpenter from Nazareth once this life has been folded up like an old blanket and put away for good. Although I have learned much from books both… Continue reading . . . let the children come unto me.
I believe that we need to read Paul with a sense of his own intense conviction that he was exploring a new country—as fertile, beautiful and exhilarating, above all as real and tangible in its working, as any that a sixteenth-century sailor might have run across in his voyages of discovery. Did Paul transform Christianity?… Continue reading The Story of Paul’s Life and Ministry
Christ and His Disciples on the Road to Bethany, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1903 THE GOSPELS: THE LORD HAS RISEN The reader might at this point be wondering why we did not begin with the resurrection narratives in the gospels, rather than starting with Paul. The reason is that Paul’s letters pre-date the gospels by… Continue reading THE STORY OF EASTER ACCORDING TO THE EVAGELISTS
The Carpenter's Nail 