Tag: Bible

In the field of second language acquisition, there is a theory that has been developed by the very popular academic Stephen Krashen. His theory is that skill in a language is generally determined by the amount of comprehensible input taken in by a student. For instance, somebody who has successfully...

For as long as I can remember, I have always strived to be involved in fashion. At the age of 6, I started a fashion club for the girls in my kindergarten class where I would choose and assign a color or pattern of the day. Fast forward to today, I am attending college, studying Fashion Merchandi...

Been shopping for a Bible lately? Been a bit overwhelmed? Type “bible” into the Amazon search bar and you’ll get 70,000 hits. That, of course, includes titles such as The Backyard Chicken Keeper’s Bible and The Motorcycle Suspension Bible, but if you narrow ...

I’ve never had a scroll, and I doubt I ever will. But when I close my eyes and picture study in the Kingdom, everyone has a scroll. Luke 4:6–20 is one of those passages I experience visually. I’m right there as Jesus steps to the bimah in the synagogue, takes the sc...

Someone in our book club, a religion professor, ordered the book to see what it contains and to use examples from it in courses. In his office one day, I pulled it down from the shelf and started looking through it. This is no commentary on scriptures. Rather, there are entries that highlight histor...

I am an ordained Christian minister who has served various local Christian congregations in a ministerial capacity since 1990. I am also a Professor of Religion with a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. from Yale University. My area of training is biblical stud...

Early on, he set about trying to teach the Bible to a community he knew: young skateboarders. He went to an Evangelical seminary, and became a pastor. But then he made the unusual decision to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he got a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies....