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An Even More Excellent Way: A Response to Joel Green on the Bible in Global Methodism
Should Global Methodist doctrine define what Scripture is or describe what Scripture does? That's the question posed by Joel B. Green in a new Firebrand article that criticizes my defense of the statement "Scripture is without error in all it affirms," which is language included in the proposed Articles of Faith to be considered by the General Conference of the Global Methodist Church (GMC) later this year. Green's article came in the form of a response to my critique of an e
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Roundup: British New Testament Conference #BNTC2014
I was in the Paul Seminar, which is one of the largest seminars at the conference and always has a number of world class scholars in...

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Roundup: 2012 British New Testament Conference
1. One of the main reasons academics attend conferences is to renew old friendships and make new ones. This being my first trip to BNTC,...

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Wrap-up from the Wesleyan Theological Society
1. Noble quotes – One person who made it a memorable meeting is Dr. Thomas Noble, who presented a very interesting paper in one of the...

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SBL Restricts Student Participation
Along with other student members of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), I recently received an email letter from John F. Kutsko,...

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What About Imputation? More on N.T. Wright at ETS
In a recent post, I said that N.T. Wright’s presentation at ETS surprised me with regard to two areas: his clarification regarding final...

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Belated ETS & SBL Reflections
I’m a bit behind most in the blogosphere who have already posted reflections on the recent annual gatherings of the Evangelical...

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2010 SBL Paper
I recently got word that my paper proposal for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature was accepted. The title of...

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Holiness in the 21st Century
Photo: Statue of Francis Asbury #Asbury #Conferences #Holiness

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