I have a new guest post on the Science and the Sacred Blog or the BioLogos Foundation (@BioLogosOrg on Twitter). This one is called “Let’s Come at This From a Different Angle.” I propose that our reading of the opening chapters of the Bible ought to be informed by the closing chapters of the Bible.
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On December 1, 2009, the BioLogos Foundation published the following announcement:
The BioLogos Foundation is happy to announce that biblical scholar Pete Enns has joined our team as a senior fellow of biblical studies. Enns is an evangelical Christian scholar and author of several books and commentaries, including the popular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the [...]

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Starting today Science and the Sacred, the blog of the BioLogos Foundation, is running a series of guest post by me, titled “Science and an Incarnational Approach to the Bible.”
Click here to read the first post.

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I wanted to alert my readers that there is an interesting disscussion of my book (Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament) and my friend Kenton Sparks’s book (God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship) over on Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog. The discussion has been [...]

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I’ve just posted a new book review: Inerrant Wisdom: Science and Inerrancy in Biblical Persective

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In Part 1 of my review of God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks, I set out what I saw as the central tenets of the book. We now continue with my report on a panel discussion of the book in which I participated this past fall.
PART 2: SBL Panel Discussion
On November 23, 2008, [...]

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Here’s another video from my interview with Zondervan Academic:

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I continue my responses to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.

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I respond to Ken Schenck’s review of Inspiration and Incarnation.

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A few days ago I received the following email from an agnostic reader of this website. The email is copied here in its [...]

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