by Mark Hamilton | May 31, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s interesting how things converge in your brain. Impressions, ideas, and reflections on both stream through seeking to stick together before something else roots them out. Yesterday, I spent time working on a survey instrument for David Miller of Princeton...
by Mark Hamilton | May 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Psalm 39 continues the theme of repentance begun in Psalm 38 by reporting the remorseful sinner’s internal thoughts: “I said [to myself], let me keep my ways from sinning by means of my tongue; let me keep my mouth from violence [emending the Hebrew from...
by Russell Kirby | May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
The following was written by one of our graduate theology students, Ben Griffith, and originally appeared online in the Huffington Post Religion section on May 10, 2011. “A Protestant Learns to Love the Church Fathers” by Ben Griffith Like beer and black...
by Mark Hamilton | May 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Repentance — such an old-fashioned, churchy word, so reminiscent of unctuous preaching and Elmer Gantry hucksters. Or so some of us think. Yet, even if the word has fallen on hard times, the idea of change, of renouncing bad habits and poor commitments, of...
by Mark Hamilton | May 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Review of Susan Campbell, Dating Jesus (Boston: Beacon, 2009). By Mark Hamilton at the 2010 Christian Scholars Conference, Lipscomb University On picking up this book, I frankly expected to hate it. What could be more clichéd than a story of a self-conscious young...