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Wrestling with Cancer and the Reality of the Resurrection
Read more: Wrestling with Cancer and the Reality of the ResurrectionPhoto credit: “Defocused tree bokeh” by freestocks.org is marked with CC0 1.0. This past November 2024 I heard the words none of us ever want to hear: I had cancer. Sure, as some might say, mine was only prostate cancer – very treatable and easily survived. However, my cancer was advanced enough that the oncologist determined I needed…
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Paul and Judaism at the End of History with Professor Matthew Novenson (Podcast)
Read more: Paul and Judaism at the End of History with Professor Matthew Novenson (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Matthew Novenson, who is the Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of Paul and Judaism at the End of History (published by Cambridge University Press). In this conversation we talk about how eschatology and Paul’s belief that he was living…
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Judgment Seat of Christ Revisited Once Again: Is This The Icing On The cake?
Read more: Judgment Seat of Christ Revisited Once Again: Is This The Icing On The cake?Photo Credit: “Lefkadia The Judgment Tomb – VI (37242295582)” by Egisto Sani from Italy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Those readers who have followed my series of posts on this blog know that my rendering of the Judgment Seat of Christ passage from 2 Cor. 5:10 is at odds with the conventional view. My reading would go…
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Judgment Seat of Christ—In Rebuttal
Read more: Judgment Seat of Christ—In RebuttalPhoto Credit: “Court Gavel – Judge’s Gavel – Courtroom” by weiss_paarz_photos is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. I have received various well-meaning criticisms and objections to the series of articles that I have posted on this blog regarding the correct translation of 2 Cor. 5:10, a passage generally referred to as the Judgment Seat of Christ. To refresh…
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A Brief Conversation Among Disembodied Spirits Residing in the Intermediate State
Read more: A Brief Conversation Among Disembodied Spirits Residing in the Intermediate StatePhoto credits: “Wait Here: Entrance to the waiting room at the municipal airport, in Washington, D.C. 1941” by polkbritton is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0. These four spirits shed their earthly names when they shed their earthly bodies. They are awaiting their new names that Christ will give them “at the end of the age.” They are…
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A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final Judgment
Read more: A Modest Critique of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope from the Perspective of Paradise and the Final JudgmentProfessor Wright has given us all a precious gift by “reminding” us and, more importantly, by explaining to us in persuasive detail that Jesus on Easter did not pass into some vague spiritual netherworld, but rather rose bodily from the dead. The resurrection, Dr. Wright correctly proclaims, represents the defeat of death and the inauguration…
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Parenting Children with Down Syndrome with Vinh Nguyen (Podcast)
Read more: Parenting Children with Down Syndrome with Vinh Nguyen (Podcast)Alt txt: Image of our guest, Vinh Nguyen, and one of our hosts: Dr. John Anthony Dunne. In this episode we are joined by Vinh Nguyen to talk about parenting children with Down syndrome. Vinh is a PhD student at McMaster Divinity College, and has served as a pastor in different capacities for over ten…
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Introducing Disability & Theology with Prof. John Swinton (Podcast)
Read more: Introducing Disability & Theology with Prof. John Swinton (Podcast)Alt txt: image of our guest, Prof. John Swinton, with some of our co-hosts, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Dr. Grace Emmett, Stephanie Kate Judd, Dr. Madison Pierce, and Rev. Dr. Chris Porter, along with the title of the episode: “Introducing Disability & Theology with Prof. John Swinton.” This episode is the first episode in our…
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Resurrection & Rationality with Dr. James T. Turner (Podcast)
Read more: Resurrection & Rationality with Dr. James T. Turner (Podcast)Carrying on our broader conversation on Apologetics, we are joined by an analytic theologian, Dr. James T. Turner, who is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Anderson University and the author of On the Resurrection of the Dead: A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought (published by Routledge). In this conversation we touch on the…
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Does Apologetics Help Us Read the New Testament? With Ian Mills (Podcast)
Read more: Does Apologetics Help Us Read the New Testament? With Ian Mills (Podcast)In this installment of our apologetics series we ask the corresponding question to last week’s episode, Does Apologetics Help Us Read the New Testament? For this conversation we are joined by Ian Mills, who is a PhD Candidate in New Testament at Duke University and co-host with Laura Robinson of the New Testament Review podcast….