“An idol is something you rely on instead of God for your salvation. One of the religious idols is your moral record: “God accepts me because I’m living a good life.” I’m a Presbyterian, so I’m all for right doctrine. But you can start to feel very superior to everyone else and think, God is [...]
October 24-25 Emmanuel Baptist Church & University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia “Seeing the NT as Christian Talmud: Toward Understanding the Nature of Christian Scripture” – at EBC, October 24, 10-12 noon “It Was a Rough Century: Challenges to Conventional Notions of the Bible from the 1800s until Today” – at U.Vic., October 25, 7 [...]
Biblioblogger Karyn Traphagen has posted a brief interview on her Boulders2Bits blog with me as part of a new series she’s starting called “Take 5.” Her description of Take 5: “Many blogs do a fine job introducing us to folks via interviews. I decided to take another tack on interviews. Rather than a long interview, [...]
