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Author: Lawson Stone

The Rapture Is There, Kind of

I am always amused at the way people, normally scholars who would never tolerate absolute, ultimatum-like statements on any subject be made without dispute, react to the periodic rapture craze. We biblical scholars especially tend

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Now For Something A Little Different

    A recent writing project sent me back to a type of literature scholars typically call “heroic.” It’s the ancient version of the action-adventure flick. I won’t bore you with the details, which you can read about in my

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Send in the Poets

Another Old Testament scholar who is a good friend of mine recently commented on Facebook about being extremely… disappointed… in the words of a very popular worship song. The lines were pretty bad, I’ll admit,

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Recollection of a Hanging

  Ever since Seminary, I’ve had a deep interest in Islam and all things Arabic. It began with a course on introductory literary Arabic, taught mainly as an aid to comparative semitic grammar. But the sinuous script

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Bible Study Clichés that Must Die (3)

It’s Sunday. We’re with family and friends, enjoying our Sunday dinner. And what’s on the menu? Roast preacher! We’re talking about what the preacher said, and how she got it wrong, or right, and how

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How Practical is Relevance?

The cry to “make the Bible relevant to today’s world” not only implies that the Bible itself lacks relevance, a point discussed yesterday, it also makes another assumption that is quite startling. This has to

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