When We're Not Tough On Ourselves, We'll Create Students Who Will Be
One question I’ve heard over and over and over again is this: why do students grow to doubt the
The Speaker's Best Friend
I’ve learned much from Lily Walter’s “What to Say When…You’re Dying on the Platform” but my
The Asherah Tug-Of-War
For some reason, Baal gets all the attention when there’s another Old Testament deity that’s frequently mentioned: Asherah:
Boredom Is Dead. And We Have Killed It.
Have you not heard of that bored man who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the
Are they really "The Patriarchs"?
In class, the topic of “The Patriarchs” (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob etc) emerged in class and Dr. Hess pointed us towards
Sussing Out Authorship
One of the more interesting questions of the Old Testament is establishing the authorship dates of the narratives. Some of
The Feisty Walter Brueggemann
I was preparing a presentation for my OT theology class and came across this quote from Walter Brueggemann. I hadn’
John Bercow Address the Oxford Student Union
MP John Bercow (yes, that John Bercow) has been the speaker of the House of Commons since 2009. If you
The Bible Is Much More Than Command
One of the tensions I’ve experienced in shifting from NT studies to OT studies is how to appropriately exegete
This Book Isn't Interesting For Students
By the way adults talk and act, the assumption, it seems, is that this Book is not interesting for students.
