Ben Witherington

We seem to like our myths about the battle between good and evil relatively clear cut, but we also like our heroes vulnerable, sometimes e...

The Conquest of Faith and the Climax of History-- Heb. 12. 1-4, 18-29 Delivered at St. Salvator’s Church St. Andrews Scotland July 21 2006 ...

The third oldest university in the United Kingdom is St. Andrews University, with 5,000 undergrads today and numerous grad students. The to...

The life of the mind is fragile. I have been constantly reminded of this from my time in academia. I have seen one academic after another fa...

From 1977-80 my wife and I lived in Durham and our daughter Christy was born here. It is nice to be back in beautiful Durham (google Durham ...

Seeing red, a red sea fogs up the brain Acting irrationally Bordering on insane. The red mist permeates The facets of the mind Acting on imp...

I am providing here a link to a New York Times article about Rob Bell's summer tour, which does not rely on multi-media pyrotechnics y...

It is usually the case that the second part of a trilogy is less satisfactory or satisfying than either the first, which sucks you in, or th...

The following are comments by men and women over 50 on their creeping decrepitude. As my English Prof at Carolina once said--- 'there ar...

I pass these along as they are from a Canadian friend who gave them to me. These are the things some men wish women knew, but usually are to...

Last summer my older cousin Ali was able to come in from Ohio to be at our wedding. I think it was really good for my dad to have someone fr...

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...