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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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
When the Beatitudes Aren’t Meant for You: Learning from Impoverished Nicaraguans and a Faithful Centurion
When I was 23 years old, through circumstances that still seem like some strange set of miracles or angel-nudges, I…
Black American Slaves Understood the Bible Better Than White Americans Did. Why?
Abraham Lincoln famously lamented in his Second Inaugural Address that folks in the Confederacy and Union “read the same Bible.”…
