Ben Witherington

We are coming to an end today of our week in Israel, and as usual it has been a wonderful, pognant, and painful experience. The plight of t...

"So hey what have you been up to lately." "We'll believe it or not I am into reading." "Really? Reading what?...

I will be off to Israel on Monday and off the blog for a while, as I serve as tour guide through Israel and Turkey, and then I am on to Engl...

"Cars" (the movie, not the old rock group with Ric Ocasek) has barnstormed up the movie charts and according to many pundits its ...

Thou shalt not have any other Providers before me. Thou shalt not make for thyself a sacrilegious image using Photoshop or Powerpoint. Thou ...

In the category of closing the barn door after the cow has escaped, we now have the banning of the Da Vinci Code movie after it has had a 22...

With an all star cast (Kevin Kline, Meryl Strep, Lilly Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Masden Lindsey Lohan, John C. Reily, Tommy Lee Jo...

I have to admit that I have problems with mega-churches, and many of their pastors. And it is also the case that I have been critical of Ric...

I took the longest commercial flight in the world these past two days--- Singapore to Newark N.J. non-stop. Its supposed to take a mere 18 a...

I have just finished the better part of the week lecturing in Singapore, a city/state of 4 million people living on an island of 250 square ...

"Changed. I say I'm changed. Ironing out one's deepest wrinkles Isn't strange." "Gone. Perhaps gone on. Those wan...

İ have been pondering something for a while on this trip as İ have visited one archaeological site after another. Here we find facts, hard ...

So here I am ın Turkey mındıng my own business near the Syrian border and checking out Antioch and there ıt ıs-- the Davincı Code billboard...

Ron Howard's two hour and 29 minute adaptation of Dan Brown's mega-selling thriller "The Da Vinci Code" has now hit the bi...

Maybe Ronnie Howard has done us all a favor. The early pre-screening reviews of the critics are out--- and they are all negative. All of t...

Hershel Shanks and BAR are now reporting that we have further, and perhaps definitive confirmation of the authenticity of the inscription on...

This is just to let all of you know that I have been granted an early viewing of the Da Vinci Code movie, and by Thursday night late I inten...

My Colleague Lawson Stone (prof. of OT at Asbury) shared the following with me. While some of this I would certainly disagree with, there i...

Dan Brown has finally surfaced in front of a live audience. Granted it was an audience in Portsmouth New Hampshire near where he lives, and...

Omar Alrikabi is one of my students who has had a difficult journey living in the U.S. and has experienced a good deal of racism within and ...