Ben Witherington

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Jesus and Paul on Singleness,Marriage, and Divorce

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Without question, of all the lectures I give, the one the prompts the most questions, sometimes even an avalanche of questions is my lecture...
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Monday, September 26, 2005

Tour Time-- The Trip of a Lifetime, June 2006

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Just a brief announcement to let you know that once again I will be leading a tour to two of the Lands of the Bible on behalf of Asbury Semi...
Sunday, September 25, 2005

The Christian's Duty to the Poor

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What follows here is a quotation of a part of a sermon that John Chrysostom, perhaps the greatest preacher of the early church gave on a por...
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Saturday, September 24, 2005

Broken Flowers for Broken Relationships

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Bill Murray's latest offering, Broken Flowers, which won highest honors at the Cannes Film Festival, is now circulating in the theaters ...
Monday, September 19, 2005

A Myth of Origins: America's Christian Founding Fathers?

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It is always a surprise, and sometimes very painful to have one's bubble burst. This is all the more so when it has to do with something...
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Monday, September 12, 2005

Katrina Reprise-- And Now for Something Completely Different

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Well it was bound to happen. We now have the ultimate answer to the trivia question--- What do the fundamentalist Christian TV preacher and ...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Cracks in the Wall

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CRACKS IN THE WALL Cracks in the wall, There by design, Prayers on plain paper One of them mine Rabbis are chanting, Torah held high, Su...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

"But the Lord was not in the wind....."

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What shall we say as Christians about the recent devastation in New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulport, Mobile, Hattisburg and various other cities? ...
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Monday, August 29, 2005

Godcasting by Podcasting

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One of the more notable and growing phenomena in our age of religious broadcasting is connected to the growing popularity of the 'Ipod...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Toasting the Pope

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I have received the following link from some of my more playful Catholic and Protestant friends. I can only say--- "Prost". http:...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

March of the Tuxedos

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It is indeed hard to believe but in the midst of all the sleaze and tease movies that are part of the regular junk food called summer movies...
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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Paul--- Right on the Money

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One of the most prevalent topics in the Pastorals Epistles is money and its accumulation. Paul is especially concerned with how Christian l...
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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Money and the Church

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A while back my friend Dr. Ken Carter, pastor of Providence UMC in Charlotte sent me these staggering statistics. Here they are for your p...
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The Virtue of Losing

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Whether we like it or not, most of the valuable lessons we learn in life come from learning from our mistakes, including from the times we l...
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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Alexander-- the Not so Great Movie

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One of the great imponderables for a Biblical scholar is trying to figure out just how Hellenized Jews were during the NT era. Put another ...
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Monday, August 01, 2005

Inspired, but not Truthful

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As I am working through 1 John, a variety of pertinent issues continue to come up, and certainly several come up from careful scrutiny in 1 ...
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Thursday, July 28, 2005

Let Your Conscience Be your Guide? Not Exactly

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I am in the process of working on a commentary on the Pastorals and the Johannine Epistles both in one volume. While dealing with the latte...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

The Durham Tradition and its Exegetes-- an Encomium

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We all stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us, especially when we are dealing with the life of the mind. And of course ther...
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Saturday, July 23, 2005

The Validity of Religious Experience

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How many times have we heard the phrase "I cannot deny my experience"? This is all the more the cry when it comes to religious ex...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Save Colossae

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Having spent parts of the last two summers in Turkey, one of the dismaying things is seeing the Biblical sites which desperately need to be ...
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