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Loose Text, Living Church: How the Woman Caught in Adultery Entered Our Bibles
Explore the manuscript history of John 7:53–8:11, the woman caught in adultery, and distinguish textual evidence from the story’s later reception.
From Dialogue to Monologue: How We Lost the Sound of Scripture in Church
Explore public reading, dialogue, and participation in the early church, and consider how the sound and setting of Scripture shape its interpretation.
Textual Criticism—What Is It and Why Should We Care?
What is textual criticism? Learn how scholars compare manuscripts and evaluate variants to study the earliest recoverable wording of biblical texts.
Before Augustine: What the Gospel Actually Meant
Explore pre-Augustinian Christian accounts of gospel, salvation, and transformation, attending to early witnesses without treating them as a single voice.
What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Questions All Along
Consider how inherited questions can obscure a biblical author’s concerns, and how reading within the ancient setting opens different paths to understanding.
Why I don’t follow Augustine (And Why I Sit with Clement, Irenaeus, and The First Voices of The Church)
A personal assessment of Augustine alongside Clement, Irenaeus, and other early Christian voices, exploring different priorities in theological reading.
When the Internet Becomes the Church
What happens when online personalities become primary spiritual teachers? Reflect on authority, accountability, and discernment in digital Christianity.
Why the Apostles Wouldn’t Recognize Modern Christianity
Compare modern church habits with early Christian patterns of shared life, instruction, and participation, asking what faithful recovery might involve.
Precepts and Presuppositions: When We Stop Letting the Author Speak
How do presuppositions shape Bible reading? Explore ways to recognize inherited assumptions and let the author’s context test our theological conclusions.
How to Retain Faith as a Theologian or Scholar in the Face of Truth
Reflect on keeping faith while studying difficult evidence, textual diversity, and changing conclusions, with honesty and humility as companions to scholarship.
