God Behaving Badly

Let your steadfast love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise (Psalm 119:41). The psalmist wants love and has no qualms about asking for… — September 3, 2012

What do you do with the story of the guy who was stoned for picking up sticks on the Sabbath?  I taught on this in Sunday school this past week.… — August 29, 2012

It's been awhile since I've done shameless marketing for my book God Behaving Badly.  Even though no one has been complaining, I know you've missed it.  Here are… — July 25, 2012

True confession: I'm a Luddite.  Luddites are opposed to technical innovations.  This is the fourth in a series of Luddite Chronicles.  For earlier posts, check these out: 1)… — June 14, 2012

In Part 1 of this series we referred to an article that mentioned that God "kiled" (see comments) a lot more people than Satan in the Bible.  Thanks for… — June 1, 2012

Monetizing--don't you love taking a noun and making it into a verb?  I call it "verbizing."  In a few years you'll find "verbize" in Websters and you can say… — May 29, 2012

David committed murder and adultery and he was allowed to remain as king, but Saul performed a premature sacrifice and he lost the throne.  What's up with that? … — May 23, 2012

In the spirit of God Behaving Badly, several people have mentioned versions of this chart to me, One of the atheists mentioned it to me while I was… — May 18, 2012

Three random notes about my book. About a year after God Behaving Badly came out I'm pleased that price for a used copy is still $7.25 (almost 80%… — May 14, 2012

Stephanie Lowery is an alum of Biblical Seminary, and one of my first Teaching Assistant's here.  Now she's a doctoral student in Theology at Wheaton.  This is her… — May 9, 2012

Frank Viola's blog is hosting part 2 of an interview with me about the God of the Old Testament: God Behaving Badly: Part II | Beyond Evangelical |… — May 9, 2012

Here is a link to Part 1 of Frank Viola's blog  interview of me, focusing on topics related to God Behaving Badly: God Behaving Badly | Beyond Evangelical |… — May 8, 2012

Blogging friend and InterVarsity staff Ben Emerson is blogging through the Bible (The Whole Dang Thing).  As his journey took him to the problematic books of Joshua and… — May 4, 2012

The young adult group at West Shore Evangelical Free Church (SixTen) has been discussing why people have a hard time getting into the Old Testament, so they posted a blog… — May 3, 2012

A few weeks ago I spoke at St. Mary's College in Maryland on God Behaving Badly.  Here is the write-up from their online newspaper (The Point): Old Testament… — May 2, 2012

On Good Friday (4/6/2012) I spoke at the InterVarsity chapter at Swarthmore College on the second chapter of God Behaving Badly .  It was filmed. The sound is… — April 12, 2012

I don't like grading papers.  I'd rather go to the dentist (and my dentist's name is Dr Au--pronounced "Owww", as in the sound one makes while grimacing in pain).… — March 27, 2012

In a few hours, after coaching my younger son's basketball team (leaving at half-time; fortunately, I have great co-coaches, one of whom is my older son), I drive back to… — February 25, 2012