Perhaps harsh, certainly provocative, but definitely compelling. What do you think of "The Purpose-Driven Lie"? The Purpose-Driven Lie | slacktivist. — July 30, 2011
This is the last in a 3-part series of reviews of Paul Copan's recent book Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God (2011, Baker). Previously… — July 29, 2011
I'm in the midst of a three-series review of Paul Copan's Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God (Baker 2011). My first blog… — July 28, 2011
Here are some links to recent reviews of God Behaving Badly and interviews about the book. Interview podcast on Faith Radio Network (WTIS Minneapolis) for "Connecting Faith" program with… — July 26, 2011
When my book proposal for God Behaving Badly went to publishers (Sept 2009) word came back that Baker already had a book on a similar topic coming out which… — July 25, 2011
Last night we watched the film Inside Job, directed by Charles Ferguson (co-produced by Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles), telling the story of how financial deregulation contributed… — July 23, 2011
After Elijah's delivers his message of canine blood licking to Ahab and Jezebel, amazingly Ahab repents and puts on sackcloth (1 Kings 21:27). YHWH is so impressed that he… — July 22, 2011
Last time we saw Elijah trash talk Baal's prophets, then slaughter them. Jezebel then put out a hit on Elijah, who mysteriously flees and becomes suicidal (the other… — July 21, 2011
After Elijah had bumped off the prophets of Baal (see last blog and 1 Kings 18:40), Jezebel, who seemed to be the one who really wore the trousers… — July 19, 2011
Jezebel, wife of Ahab, has been slaughtering the prophets of YHWH in record numbers (1 Kings 18:4), so Elijah tells Ahab to gather the prophets of Baal and… — July 17, 2011
The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented amount of books (and films and games) devoted to zombies. For example, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War… — July 16, 2011
Since we went to the Caribbean to celebrate our 20th anniversary last week, I decided to read about the Haiti earthquake in Kent Annan's new book, After Shock:… — July 14, 2011
Here's the link to the July 2011 Christianity Today excerpt (the "wedgie for a wedgie" story). I'm now CT's go-to guy on the theological implications of wedgies (you got… — July 12, 2011
Yesterday's Sunday's Doonesbury strip (July 10, 2011) would have been perfect for God Behaving Badly (perhaps it will go into the next book?). I think the earth is old (much older… — July 11, 2011
King Ahaz of Judah is worried. His two rivals to the north, Rezin of Aram and Pekah of Israel had allied against him, probably to force him into… — July 10, 2011
I'm currently in the Caribbean (Turks and Caicos) celebrating 20 years of marriage to Shannon. (No, I didn't get this picture from Google images, that's actually us. Green bowties… — July 4, 2011
I found out last month that Christianity Today was going to print an excerpt from God Behaving Badly in its July magazine. I've been frantically checking our mailbox… — July 2, 2011
"I will strike you down and cut off your head." These words are uttered by the boy David to the giant Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:46. It's hard… — July 1, 2011