Monthly Archives: April 2011

I’ve been reading through Brigitte Kahl’s Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading With the Eyes of the Vanquished.  This book is an attempt to understand the historical/social/political context of the recipients of Paul’s letter in Galatia.  Starting at 387 BCE, the year Rome … Continue reading →

I promise to write more posts on Galatians in a little while, but I’d like to take a bit of a detour to 1 Samuel, which I recently finished reading.  In a few posts, I will deal with the first … Continue reading →

This post is a response to Donald Miller’s recent blog post, ‘Should the Church Be Led By Teachers and Scholars?’ Jesus was both a carpenter and a rabbi (the Jewish term for ‘teacher’). The son of a Jewish carpenter, Jesus … Continue reading →