Petra Means Rock Churches: Jordan Permits Site’s First Prayers in 1,400 Years
Religious tourism initiative at ancient city recalls Moab, Byzantium, and Arab tribal Christianity, amid speculation on Paul’s possible first missionary journey.
Great Humility
The power of a neglected virtue
Books to Note
Short reviews of recent books worth considering.
The Jesus We’ll Never Know
Why scholarly attempts to discover the ‘real’ Jesus have failed. And why that’s a good thing.
Passages
Robert Short dies, Paula White returns to Without Walls, and other transitions in the Christian world.
The Champion Who Debunked Bultmann
Martin Hengel, giant of New Testament scholarship, established the basis for historical confidence in the early Christian documents.
Why the ‘Lost Gospels’ Lost Out
Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history.
Raising the Bar
A daring proposal for the future of evangelical New Testament scholarship.
The Genesis of Our Woes
Prophecy from the first book of the Bible
The Jesus I’d Prefer to Know
Searching for the historical Jesus and finding oneself instead.