For anyone looking for reading material for pre-teens/young teens, I want to recommend the four books (totaling about a thousand pages) in the Wingfeather Saga. It’s fantasy along the lines of the Narnia books and Lord of the Rings, with Christian themes but also allusions and similarities to classical and Norse mythology. The plot is … [Read more…]
Our pastor has used the arresting metaphor of a man lost in an airport, who has misplaced his itinerary and is now trying desperately to find the right gate to board his plane home. The pastor then asks the congregation, How helpful is it if he is told, “Don’t worry about it: Any of the … [Read more…]
He is risen! Happy Easter! And to sweeten your celebration, here is a six-minute clip from Gary Habermas on the historicity of the Resurrection. For more on Dr. Habermas’s “minimal facts” approach, see my blogpost here. That blogpost reviews a book coauthored by him, which I summarize this way (thus, this is also a fair … [Read more…]
First, Richard Bauckham — the amazing scholar and author of, among other things, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses — has an interesting lecture here. In brief, he discusses how the supposed geographical “errors” in Mark can be explained by the facts that (1) Mark is relying on the recollections of Peter, and (2) Peter himself was … [Read more…]