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
Thomas Cole - The Voyage of Life Old Age, 1842 (National Gallery of Art) Once a man has died, and the dust has soaked up his blood, there is no resurrection. - Aesch. Eumen While the pyre was burning, it is said that a cloud passed under Hercules and with a peal of thunder wafted him… Continue reading The Afterlife in Greek, Roman, and Jewish Thought – Chapter 12, “The New Testament In Its World”
The New Testament In Its World, April 6, 2025Chapter 11 – “The Death of the Messiah” The quotes below are all taken from "The New Testament In Its World," Wright and Bird, Zondervan. Somehow, Jesus’s death was seen by Jesus himself, and then by those who told and ultimately wrote his story, as the ultimate… Continue reading The New Testament In Its World, Chapter 11 – “The Death of the Messiah”
The Carpenter's Nail 