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The Intentionally Intercultural Church: A Place for All Peoples
The purpose of this paper is to examine Jesus’ mission for the church and argue that an intentionally intercultural ideology will make churches within diverse communities safe places for people of any racial or ethnic background. Continue reading
“Drinking It New in the Kingdom of God” (Mark 14:25) – An Assertion of Ownership?
The reference to drinking “the produce of the vine” in Mark 14:25 usually is seen as a reference to the eschatological banquet motif. In this article the argument is made that the Markan narrative does not refer to the eschatological banquet motif… Continue reading
Adaptive Versus Strategic Planning: Planning for Results
The process of ministry planning has become a key part of most leadership boards or staffs. It is either implicitly or explicitly expected that most high-level leaders will be able to point to a well thought through strategic plan in order to explain the actions they are taking or the outcomes they are pursuing. This article suggests that it is time for a change… Continue reading
Review of Hamilton: How a Hip-Hop Musical About an American Founder Taught Me to Read the Bible Better
Hamilton is a hip-hop musical that follows the life and death of American founder and first treasury secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton. When creator Lin Manuel-Miranda shared the first song in the project at a White House poetry jam in 2009, his description, and the main character’s introduction, elicited a round of laughter… Continue reading
Review of Craig Allert, Early Christian Readings of Genesis One, 2018
Allert, Craig D. 2018. Early Christian Readings of Genesis One: Patristic Exegesis and Literal Interpretation. Downers Grove, Il: IVP. ISBN 978-0-8308-5201-7 By Archie J. Spencer, ThD It must be said from the outset that Allert’s, Early Christian Readings of Genesis … Continue reading
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Pornography and the Local Church
Arthur Birch, MA Two thousand years ago, the Holy Spirit, speaking through the Apostle Paul, warned believers in Jesus about sexual immorality. Writing to the church in Ephesus, in a letter that would be shared worldwide in coming years, the … Continue reading
Mark 13:14 – A Cryptic Prophecy of the Messiah’s Death?
Larry J. Perkins, PhD Generally, current explanations of Mark 13:14 identify the “desolating sacrilege” or “the abomination of desolation” with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. While certainly the agent of this desolation, the Roman action is not … Continue reading
Review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Christian Humanism, 2018
Zimmermann, Jens. 2018. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christian Humanism. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 9780198832560 By Archie J. Spencer, ThD As a theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands with a select few significant Protestants, doing their work during a time that some describe … Continue reading
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Review of Speaking Up: Understanding Language and Gender, 2018
Jule, Allyson, 2018. Speaking up: Understanding Language and Gender. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Multilingual Matter. By Mark Naylor, DTh Language is never neutral, never merely description. We reinforce values by what we say, how we say it and even by … Continue reading
In Celebration of Small Churches: Size As an Indicator of Church Health
Ron Johnston, DMin Introduction While mega-churches and their leaders have received much attention over the past half century, numerically the small church still dominates the ecclesiastical landscape in Canada. While the author of this article has not found any hard … Continue reading
Don (Dongshin) Chang, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Junior Fellow, John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies; Research Associate, Dead Sea Scrolls Institute Research Interests Literary and Linguistic Aspect of 1 Maccabees, The Priesthood in the Late Second Temple Period, The Resident Alien … Continue reading
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Michael Morelli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Theology, Culture and Ethics, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Programming; Special Assistant to the President Research Interests My primary research interests are studies of how orthodox doctrine and theological thought from the early church onward can inform, challenge, … Continue reading
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Mark A. Naylor, PhD
Coordinator, International Leadership Development (CILD); Instructor and Mentor, Immerse Program Research Interests Disciple Making Movements, Intercultural Theology /Hermeneutics, Contextualization, Inter-religious Dialogue, Cultural Intelligence, Bible Translation Current Book Projects Mapping Theological Trajectories that Emerge in Response to a Bible Translation. Evangelical … Continue reading
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Jonathan D. Numada, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Junior Fellow, John William Wevers Institute for Septuagint Studies Research Interests 1 Maccabees, Jewish Social Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century German Theological Scholarship, Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Gospel of John. Publications Books … Continue reading
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Larry J. Perkins, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies; Founding Fellow, John William Wevers Institute of Septuagint Studies; Member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the International Society of Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Publications Current Book Projects Preparing a Commentary on Greek Exodus … Continue reading
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