Ben Witherington

I am not a person that is much in favor of banning things. For one thing it usually backfires (although the banning of the 'Da Vinci Co...

Three of my Parchman lectures given at Baylor last month are now available online.... Here's the links---- Witherington #1 http://www.b...

Jesse James was an outlaw. Indeed he was a ruthless killer and thief. He was also the son of a Baptist minister, and a family man. He led...

The third volume in my little trilogy on the Protestant 'sacraments' (baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Word of God) is now out, ...

Who knew that Charles Wesley, that great writer of over 6,000 hymns, was a closet rocker? But now we have the proof in the form of a brand n...

For those of you who don't know the history of how holy days became holidays, including All Hallow's Eve and All Saints Day, I would...

"I fear, wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore, I do not see how it i...

One of the most valuable part of my education over thirty years ago at Gordon-Conwell Seminary was learning the nature of covenanting, or ma...

Perhaps you remember 'Good Will Hunting'. It was a promising beginning for Ben Afleck and his buddy Matt Damon, both of whom hail fr...

You have got to love it. The Chinese government, in order to have some control over certain social aspects of Buddhism in China has issued ...

The following was my sermon Sunday Oct. 21 at First UMC Lexington, Ky. See what you think. BW3 --------- LOST—THE PARABLES, NOT THE TV SHOW...

I must confess to being prejudiced. After spending a lot of years in the lands of the Bible, my favorite, in terms of the visual side of thi...

There was a recent, and surprisingly civil, debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox (a mathematician) in Birmingham Ala. They are bo...

Here are a few more real letters from young children to God. Clearly they think honesty is the best policy when it comes to talking to the A...

In the shadowy world of relativism, there is no darker corner than the American legal system where 'truth' can be bought, sold, adju...

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?" The answers they got we...