Ben Witherington

There are movies that are disturbing and then there are movies that are moving, and then there are movies that are both disturbing and movin...

Without question Paul Doherty is one of the best British historical novelists in recent memory. On top of that, he is polymath, by which I m...

Right across from the host hotel in a large open area in downtown Wasington D.C. was the Circque d'Soleil. The more I thought about, t...

It is a delicate question--- Who can Commune with God? And today Catholic Bishops have been voting on this matter. The issue is this-- who ...

There is a very interesting article in the NY Times this morning analyzing what Christian did in the voting in the midterm elections this we...

It was Shakespeare who said “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which if taken at the flood” leads on to great things. Of course the op...

The full story was posted on MSNBC 16 minutes ago. And it is a shocker. Ted Haggard has resigned in disgrace. The Church's Board of Over...

In a scenario reminiscent of the Jim Bakker scandal decades ago, Ted Haggard, pastor of a 14,000 member Evangelical Church in Colorado Sprin...

In an email yesterday a NT colleague and friend Peter Richardson told me the sad news. The makers of the wonderful verbatim version of the G...

Yet another case of a teen molested by a priest. Only this time it was a Republican in high public office who was molested as boy. The pries...

The answer to the question 'What do aging NT profs do with their spare time?' turns out to be-- write fiction. Richard Bauckham is...

Ever since I was small I have been fascinated by magic. No, not black magic and that sort of legerdermain. I mean magic tricks--- the Harr...

The story is the same throughout the Middle East. Christians are caught between a rock and a hard place. In Israel they are caught between ...

The New York Times this week has run a series of interesting articles by Diana B. Hendriques about the ever decreasing size of the wall betw...

Marian Fisher was only thirteen. She had a lot to live for, and probably many years yet to live. Yesterday she was buried in a cold steady ...

Ron Luce is worried. And if Ron Luce is worried, we should be too. Ron runs an organization called Teen Mania which puts on camps, concerts...

Post-Modernism is an odd movement of our time. As it affects theological reflection it has both its good and bad aspects. The good news is ...