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Teaching Genesis’ Beautiful Vision in an Incarcerated Context

It’s Tuesday morning. I’m about to head out the door. With a wry smile, I say to my family, “I’m…

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A Pentecostal’s Biblical Reflections on the Asbury Revival

As a Pentecostal, I am familiar with revival language. It is common practice in my sphere to seek or pray…

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How the Ten Commandments Shape the Moral Imagination

Late Second Temple and New Testament era debates about divorce often focused on the seemingly strange law discussing divorce in…

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Orality and the Cycle of Revelation: How God and His Image-Bearers Communicate

The world of biblical and mission study realized long ago that the Scriptures were more than a text. The Scriptures…

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The Sabbath as a Key to Understanding Biblical Law, Part 2

Read part 1, on the ethical purposes of Sabbath. The Sabbath was originally instituted as a sign and a condensed…

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The Sabbath as a Key to Understanding Biblical Law, Part 1

As a child, I enjoyed books with “exploded” views of great machines, within which all the component parts of some…

Most Popular Articles and Podcast Episodes of 2022

The Biblical Mind’s top articles of 2022 explored biblical motifs and metaphors, the modern concerns of race and individualism, and high-level…

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The Meaning of ‘Gentiles,’ Part 2: The Jew-Gentile Relationship in the New Testament

Read part 1, “Tracing the Meaning of ‘Gentiles’ in the Bible,“ here. Are we actually all equal in God’s eyes?…

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Tracing the Meaning of ‘Gentiles’ in the Bible, Part 1

It’s never fun to find yourself in the out-group. Something about the way humans organize themselves almost seems to require…

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Will the Church Ever Understand Biblical Law?

This article was originally published by the Theopolis Institute on April 21, 2022. This slightly modified version has been republished…