A feather in your theological cap.
The personal blog of pastor, grammarian, and runner Brent Niedergall
The Twelve Reads of Christmas – Day 2
This post is the second installment in a series of twelve December recommendations drawn from biblical studies and twentieth-century fiction. Each day’s pick is something I enjoy that relates to Christmas and that I think others will find helpful or interesting. The...
The Twelve Reads of Christmas – Day 1
I’m kicking off a series of twelve December posts, highlighting a range of reading recommendations that come from the field of biblical studies, as well as from twentieth-century fiction. Each day’s pick is something I like that relates to Christmas and that I think...
Ranking Graham Greene’s Novels
I discovered Graham Greene more than a decade ago while passing through a military base in Kyrgyzstan. After reading The Human Factor, I kept reading his novels until there weren't any more to read—except for Rumour at Nightfall, an early novel that Greene himself...
The Ichthus Christogram and Other Early Christian Symbols
A Book Review I first encountered the work of J. Daniel Hays on the eight-spoked wheel when I read his chapter on the subject in Inscriptions, Papyri, and Other Artifacts. The topic was entirely new to me, and it immediately captured my interest, prompting me to read...
Should I consider the new subscription-based version of Logos?
Logos Review *****Special Partner Offer***** I love Logos. I use it every week to search the Bible, commentaries, lexicons, and more. That said, Logos has undergone a transformation, and now that I’ve had a chance to spend a few months using the newest version, I’m...
The Biggest Story Family Devotional
A Book Review The Biggest Story Family Devotional from Crossway is my family’s new favorite devotional to use during our evening Bible time. This book contains 104 stories with accompanying Scripture readings and questions to guide families through the big story of...
Judgment and Salvation
A Book Review Dustin G. Burlet’s Judgment & Salvation: A Rhetorical-Critical Reading of Noah’s Flood in Genesis uses a rhetoric-as-persuasion flavor of rhetorical criticism to argue that the Genesis flood narrative (Gen 6–9) contains elements of both judgment and...
Psalms 89–105: A Handbook on the Greek Text
A Book Review Psalms 89–105: A Handbook on the Greek Text by Jennifer Brown Jones is the newest addition to the Baylor Handbook on the Septuagint Series edited by Sean A. Adams and Seth M. Ehorn. As with the other volumes in this series, this resource provides the...
How Can New Testament Study Benefit from Ostraca?
Introduction Ancient people wrote on a variety of surfaces. We find ancient Greek written on papyri, stone, metal, and potsherds known as ostraca. The texts on these surfaces can serve variously as textual witnesses to the New Testament, linguistic evidence, evidence...
Book Review: A Theology of Paul the Apostle, Part 2
Roger Greene’s A Theology of Paul the Apostle, Part Two: Cross and Atonement is a rich study of Paul’s unique contribution to the important Christian doctrine of atonement, exploring the question of how sinners can be reconciled to God. Note that this is the second...