Christian Carnival CCLIX Posted

Byhenry January 16, 2009

. . . at Parableman. Check it out! My post this week was not from this blog, but this one from my Threads blog.

Link: A Messy Incarnation

Byhenry December 9, 2019

Energion author Bruce Epperly talks about the messiness of the incarnation in God’s Birth: It’s Fragile and Messy. I consider the incarnation to be the center of good Christian theology.

Bible Study | Biblical Inerrancy | Christianity

I’ve been talking about inspiration and canonization in several posts, and I’m finally ready to get down to talking about inspiration. First, I’d like to remind you of my existing essays on inspiration, Inspiration, Biblical Authority, and Inerrancy, which goes into some detail on the topic of Biblical inspiration. But now I want to look…

Answering a Question on Egalitarianism

Byhenry February 24, 2010

I already responded to one post by Michael Patton on this topic (Am I a Complementarian?), but he followed this up with a question. I have been so busy with the release of my latest book (co-authored with Geoffrey Lentz) that I have fallen well behind the progress of this topic, but I still want…

Christianity | Education Policy | Religious Education

More on Bible in Public Schools

Byhenry September 13, 2006

Ed Brayton calls attention to a Texas Freedom Network report on the teaching of the Bible in public schools. Not surprisingly, the report is not good. Bible teaching is constitutional under certain specific circumstances, largely amounting to requiring that it be taught as an academic subject in a non-sectarian way. The recommendations by the Texas…

The Moral Influence of Jesus’ Death

Byhenry October 8, 2024

In my Sunday School class yesterday we discussed Mark 15. We’re reading this with Allan Bevere’s Keeping Up with Jesus: A Narrative Devotional Commentary on Mark. In the thought questions for chapter 15, Allan asks both why Jesus is silent at his trial as depicted in Mark, and what it means that Jesus died for…

Author Related | Christianity | Exegesis | Lectionary

St. Gregory the Theologian on Ransom and the Bronze Serpent

Byhenry March 18, 2009

I was delighted to find this quote via the Orthodox Study Bible, though I must add to my complaints about that edition the fact that they cite church fathers by name, but without providing a reference to the particular work. A visit to the St. Pachomius Library and then ewtn.com resolved the latter question. The…