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Traveling Bishops or Residential Bishops? The Global Methodist Church

I've been writing a lot of late on the conversation around bishops in the Global Methodist Church. The outcome of the vote on the...

The State of New Testament Studies: A Quick Review

The contributions fall into four major sections. Part 1 is on the ancient context of the New Testament and attends to the relationship...

Reading Romans in Context: A Review (@Zondervan, @bencblackwell)

Context is everything. That’s the first rule for interpreting scripture (or any other text, for that matter). The rule refers first to...

Understanding the Little Apocalypse: Three things to remember about Matthew 24

Everything Jesus says is his answer to the question raised by the disciples in 24:3. And their question is primarily looking for a bit of...

Inerrancy and Interpretation (2): More on the Licona Controversy

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Was Jonah Really Swallowed by a Whale?

First, the text of Jonah doesn’t actually say that Jonah was swallowed by a sperm whale. It simply says he was swallowed by a big fish...

Inerrancy and Interpretation: The Licona Controversy

The details of the controversy are available in other places; so I’ll simply sum up the core issue. In his massive book, The Resurrection...

Matt O'Reilly, PhD