Ben Witherington

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...