Hebrew Bible and Christian Scriptures

There has been recent discussion in class on David’s moral status. Certainly many events in the life of the troubled king are considered to be “ethically questionable” both to modern eyes as well as to the judgement of his own day. It has been in fact suggested that David is not unlike a modern day [...]

The human race is finding itself increasingly guilty of matricide- that is, of the systematic destruction of not only the habitats of other species, but habitat in general. For all previously recorded human history the earth has sustained around two hundred and fifty million inhabitants. Today we find the world lifting up seven billion industrialized [...]

Among the many surprises that awaited me upon coming to seminary the most startling of them was how freely people used the tertragrammaton, the Holy name for God. I must confess the first time such an instance occurred I nearly lost my cool. The idea that people would  just toss this name around like some [...]

Among the realities of the Protestant Reformation is that it was, even at it’s points of greatest departure, largely a continuation of former Roman Catholic thought. This is of course true for the Anglicans, who seem themselves as deeply connected to the catholic tradition, but it also true for even less liturgical denominations. On some [...]

I have selected as a complement to my formal studies and to further my understanding of Texas Baptist history “Fruits And Flowers In The Wilderness” by Z.N. Morrell. From this point forward for the sake of brevity and the sake of the reader I will refer to the text as only “F&F”. It is important [...]