The Burr in the Burbs

Haven’t you heard this before from non-religious people? “Oh, the Bible has been copied and translated so many times in the past 2ooo years, no one can really know what the original manuscripts said.” What is frustrating is that this critique is made so often and is simply accepted as common knowledge when the science [...]

Kramer ChapelOctober 8, 2007Text: Mark 11:12-14, 20-24 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then [...]

This week, I am at Grace Lutheran Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I’m sitting in on a continuing education class for pastors on Leviticus. Our instructor is Dr. John Kleinig, Old Testament scholar at Australian Lutheran College. He is quite fantastic and has me convinced that Leviticus is – by Christians – the most [...]