Some folks are all excited about the so-called “New Perspective on Paul” these days. I’ve said before, it’s kind of old hat to me, as I first studied this in college, starting 27 years ago, when it was new; one of the texts we used at Atlantic Union College for NT epistles was Krister Stendahl,…

Dom links to the famous diner scene in Five Easy Pieces. It reminded me of the time (about 1991) I was attending a chaplains’ conference at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and went out for dinner with a couple of the chaplains from that post, one of whom, Jim Bowman, had been a classmate of mine at…

Diogenes points to interesting redactions in the Catholic lectionary.

Christianity Today: The Goddess Unmasked.