While SWBTS staff and faculty are being laid off and salaries reduced, the Pattersons continue to maintain a large personal staff. Mrs. Patterson has an assistant and a research assistant. Dr. Patterson has an executive assistant, secretary, personal assistant, and four interns. The Pattersons also ...

So far my reading list for the new year looks as follows: 1. Cultural Interpretation : Reorienting New Testament Criticism by Brian Blount 2. Silencing the Past:Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 3. Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness by Sta...

My friend Tony has written another excellent post. He expounds a few propositions about the call of God on one's life, and the importance of submitting to God for change. The whole biblical account in the Bible is about people responding to God's call for change. Abraham was called a friend of God b...

A little over three weeks ago I received a copy of the ESV Study Bible. Honestly, I don't reember how I got this Bible, but one thing I know for sure it's a gift from Crossway Books. Thanks to the good foks at Crossway Books for sending a gift copy. My friend Nick provides an excellent review of it....

Christ, My Righteousness Ministries is giving away free books (running offer: January 1-31, 2009). Yes totally free! All you have to do is look through the list below and select 1 book. You’ll be responsible to for the shipping. (normally $ 3.99 per book). Click here for access. Conditions: 1. 1 b...

My friend Ron Stimphil just launched a new radio ministry entitled "Amazing Grace for Today." Ron and I have been good friends for many years. We met as seminary students in Louisville, KY. Ron and his family live in GA. Check out the ministry's website. Amazing Grace Today's Vision Statement: We ar...

This morning I received an email from Sarah Wilson, the Outreach Coordinator of Fresh Air Children Fund PSA. Sarah wants me to share with you blog readers the beautiful and transformative work of Fresh Air Children Fund. Helping children and making a lifelong difference in their lives is the central...

I want to thank Bradley, Jeremy, Ben, David, Frank, Lionel and you readers respectively for participating in this endeavor. It has indeed been a delightful series with some inclusive thought-provoking, persuasive posts of different ways of articulating and expressing the need for racial harmony in t...

The onus is on you, white! by Ben Byerly (Nairobi, Kenya) I speak as one white man to other whites. If we are interested in racial reconciliation, and we should be, we are going to have to take responsibility and action. [I'm guessing someone else in this series will have given the Biblical basis fo...

Bob Jones & Race by Jeremy Pierce Bob Jones University, founded in 1927 in the nexus of racial segregationism and the religious separatism of the early fundamentalist movement, took until 2000 to revoke their ban on interracial dating. Eight years later, they've issued a Statement about Race at Bob ...