For our series on “Loving the Church” in all its grit, grime and glory, we had some exchanges with Jason Byassee. Before accepting an appointment as Senior Minister at Boone United Methodist Church (North Carolina), Jason worked at Duke Divinity School, heading up their Center for Theology, Writing and Media. Since a lot of our…
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I have been writing on the vocational idea of the “pastor-theologian.” The recent series of posts was inspired by Doug Sweeney’s article at the Gospel Coalition, whose “call and agenda” should be received with both excitement and urgency. Related to these thoughts, I recommend this post by Mark Stevens who is studying Eugene Peterson’s model…
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I graciously received a review copy in the summer of Prepare, Succeed, Advance: A Guidebook for Getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and Beyond. When Pickwick Publications (Wipf & Stock) sent the book, I read the first 1/3 of the book and immediately wrote a post. But then I actually started doing a PhD…
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Below is the list of papers and their presenters for the Durham New Testament Seminar this term. I am very thankful that here at Durham the Seminar meets every week, rather than fortnightly (which is a great British way of saying “every other week”). On the off-weeks not listed below, our NT Faculty members will…
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“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.” (James 3:1) After almost a decade of pastoral ministry, I am now firmly ensconced within the academic world, getting my feet wet in a New Testament doctoral program. Being situated quite deeply within…
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Below is the schedule for the weekly New Testament seminar at Durham University. Note that there are discussions previewing two books that will likely become major works in their respective fields. John Barclay will be presenting on Paul and Gift, and my supervisor, Francis Watson, will be presenting on Gospel Writing: A Canonical Perspective. Many…
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For the past few years I have been a regular reader of the blogs maintained by Ben Blackwell and Nijay Gupta. Now teaching at Houston Baptist University and Seattle Pacific University respectively, I found their blogs when they were slogging away at New Testament doctoral work at Durham University. They have both been extremely gracious…
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