by Mark Hamilton | Apr 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
You may have seen the movie “Joyeux Noel,” about the 1914 Christmas truce on the Western Front. Young men from Germany, Scotland, and France stop fighting for a day or two in order to sing from trench to trench and then play soccer and even celebrate mass...
by Jeff Childers | Apr 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Dr. Jeff W. Childers, Carmichael-Walling Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the Graduate School of Theology at Abilene Christian University, offers some reflections on his recent trip to the Vatican Library in Rome: Sojourn in the Eternal City...
by Russell Kirby | Apr 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
A quote from the (April 7th) Abilene Reporter News article: The challenge of any translation of the Bible — or any other book — is figuring out how to handle gender, said Dr. Mark W. Hamilton, professor of Old Testament and associate dean of Abilene Christian...
by Russell Kirby | Apr 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
by Mark Hamilton | Apr 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Evil is an odd word. It often gets used for all sorts of things we dislike, though I would like to reserve it for truly horrific violations of human dignity (bombing civilians or using food as a weapon or depriving the poor of the medical care others receive). Some...
