Professor Larry Hurtado of the University of Edinburgh is an eminent New Testament scholar known for his work on manuscripts, textual forms and transmission, early Christian symbols, and especially early Christian worship of Jesus in language traditionally reserved for the God of Israel. He agreed recently, sight unseen, to review N. T. Wright's enormous and long-expected
Piper channels Kilby channeling Lewis channeling, I suggest, Hopkins - in the course of which we happen upon a wonderful list of ten ways to revel righteously in the "strange glory of ordinary things." It's a notion deeply consonant with the aims of Wince+Sing. The first three read as follows: "1. At least once every day
The Folio Society is an elegant celebration of quality, meticulous book publication. Rich editions of great books - glued bindings appropriately elicit the publisher's anathema - is a weakness of mine, and so any product of the Society is a rare, almost intoxicating indulgence. The most recent Folio magazine arrived today. In the opening pages
Thank you for bearing with the hauntingly quiet corridors of Wince+Sing lately. Behind the scenes exciting developments are taking place, and the project as a whole is coming into place nicely. We are moving ever closer to our goal of providing and facilitating research and resources in theology, exegesis, and spirituality in the tradition of
The child’s game of tag is simple, universal, and timeless. I’ve seen it from my own backyard to the mountains of East Africa. One person is “it”, and everyone else is a potential target. By a simple touch the targeted person is “got” and the players shift roles. The sting of having been gotten is
Death despite medicine. That it is common, perhaps nearly universal, does little to numb the pain of it every time it happens. After a round, or two or five or twenty-five rounds, of professional medical attention, advanced medicines, treatments, operations, surgeries, and the like, our loved one dies. "Dies anyway," we might be inclined to
Laughter and weeping are both, to use Berger's term, "signals of transcendence" - punctuations in the story of human life that reveal our belief in Something beyond us. Christians teach that these punctuations expose that we are eschatological creatures who lean forward into life with an ineradicable and fundamental sense of expectation and longing for
The end of a story is like a death for its characters and our relationship to them. And so we start the story anew, we return to the book again, and make its world alive to us again. Retelling the story, and suspending thereby the true end of it all, keeps the story and its
What exactly do we lose if we hedge our bets on the historical Adam? This has become the question in ongoing debates over how important the idea really is to Christian faith and life. Most of these debates, animated as they are by the perceived stakes, tend hastily to gloss over some important distinctions, however,
Grief is a wandering through catacombs. Shadowy, unearthly, and lacking in that ordinary wheel of human existence: a goal. Aimless because there is no clear goal in grief, the mourner meanders. Plodding deeper into the darkness seems the only direction, if it can be called direction. In the biblical world, grief, that amorphous back-and-forth of