God as Liberator

God as liberator is an “ancient yet contemporary pivotal point around which Black theology revolves – (Warren H. Stewart, Interpreting God’s Word in Black Preaching )

Triune Praise Video

Check it out! It is profound theologically.

African American Anthropology

One of the books (Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation) I am currently reading deals with the subject of African American Biblical Interpretation. In a particular essay entitled, “The Haustafeln” (Household Codes) in African American Biblical Interpretation: “Free Slaves” and “Subordinate Women,” Clarice J. Martin forcefully argues against the ideas of “slavery” [...]

Matthäuspassion by Johann Sebastian Bach

My wife named our second son’s middle name “Sebastien” (spell with an “e” instead of an “a”) for her love for Johann Sebastian Bach’s music, perhaps the greatest composer ever lived. (She loves me more than she loves you and Back altogether:).”Bach’s St. Matthew Passion was written in 1727. Only two of the four (or [...]

Allison’s Duke Lecture on the Historical Jesus

Dale C. Allison Jr, Errett M., Grable professor of New Testament exegesis and early Christianity at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, gave a series of lecture on The Historical Jesus and the Theological Jesus at Duke Divinity School. Enjoy!

Racism and Sexism and the Church

In a recent article entitled, Racism and Sexism and the Church, Charles Colson alludes to church tradition and argues that the church must continue fighting against “racism” and “sexism,” “It is the duty of every Christian to fight against racism and sexism,” Colson maintains. In Rome in the third century, where women had no rights, [...]

RBL new reviews

The following new reviews have been added to the Review of Biblical Literature: Joan Cecelia CampbellKinship Relations in the Gospel of Johnhttp://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6074 Reviewed by Ritva H. Williams Daniel K. FalkThe Parabiblical Texts: Strategies for Extending the Scriptures among the Dead Sea Scrollshttp://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6011 Reviewed by Matthew Goff Karin Finsterbusch, Armin Lange, and K. F. Diethard Römheld, [...]

An Interview with Tom Schreiner

Andy Cheung at Midlands Bible College and Divinity School (click here to read the full interview )recently interviewed Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation and Associate Dean, Scripture and Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, about his forthcoming book, New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ As you wrote [...]

Carter on Obama’s Speech and His New Book

J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School of Duke University. Carter’s most recent work, Race: A Theological Account, addresses the problem of race from a theological perspective. This volume might revolutionize the way we do theology and deal with the issue of race theologically. Here’s the [...]

The Talking Book

I am priviledged to receive a review copy of The Talking BookAfrican Americans and the Bible by Allen Dwight Callahan from Yale University Press. Million thanks to the good folks at Yale University Pressin New Haven for their generosity and honoring my request. And I longed to read my Bible,For precious words it said;But when [...]