Ben Witherington

We are drawing near to the beginning of the American holiday season which seems to extend backwards into fall ever further as each year pass...

I am very pleased to offer you a poem written by a doctoral student at Vanderbilt Divinity School whom I have had the pleasure of getting to...

Certainly for me, one of the most enriching things I have done in recent years is read large quantities of the greatest of the exegetes amon...

One theologian has wryly defined a saint as a religious figure from hoary antiquity whose life has been insufficiently researched! In shor...

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, i...

Finding good and wholesome family entertainment in this day and age is like searching for the holy grail sometimes. We keep hoping it is out...

Weary, worn, welts on hand Work has whittled down the man To the bare necessities Of what he is, and what he’ll be Was this then his destiny...

A friend of 30 plus years sent this to me. I thought you would want to see it. It raises the question--- what is normal in God's eyes, a...

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...