Have you ever wondered if anything good could come from the internet? Well keep wondering and let me know what  you come up with.  In the ...

A very worthwhile read sent to me this AM by Prof. Keith. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113299/leon-wieseltier-commencement-speech-br...

Every once and a while heretics turn out to be a whole lot of fun!  I suppose it takes one to know one.  How I came to study the thirteenth ...

It must be difficult to be N.T. Wright. The man publishes so many books that sometimes the books aren't even his.  Check out the sleuth ...

Last week in the mail I received my contributor copy of The New Cambridge History of the Bible: From the Beginnings to 600 .  I was very f...

One episode in Mark that has traditionally been viewed by scholars to bespeak the teaching of Jesus (i.e. not invented by the early Church) ...

In light of this story about Pope Francis, a friend of mine recently suggested that this pope might have an appreciative understanding of t...

Mark Goodacre has a really cool blast from past video over at NTweblog . -anthony

10) Saw my first real armadillo. It was road kill, but it still counts. 9) Ate at the famous Mr. Spriggs BBQ . The meat fell right off the ...

I spent the last five days in Oklahoma and Arkansas.  Although there were tornado sirens going off and tornadoes just north and south of me,...

I saw the latest Star Trek offering yesterday (thanks to Pastor Phil who used his gift card to pay my way). For the self-aware and un-...

My friends. Science, when done well, makes one happy. For example, I learned this in a used book store today: "Lignin, the stuff that...

Today in the mail I received a copy of Eric Eve’s new book,  Behind the Gospels: Understanding the Oral Tradition .  I was able to read t...