The Schooley Files

T o wrap up this series summarizing what was memorable to me in N.T. Wright's Surprised by Hope, I'd like to focus on a particular ...

O ne of the stumbling blocks to Christians fully embracing the biblical teaching of physical resurrection lies right in Paul's expositio...

W hat Jesus' resurrection meant was that what the Jews (at least some of them) were hoping for at the end of time was breaking into pre...

I n order to understand the importance of the Resurrection, we first have to understand what the first-century views of resurrection were. W...

T hose who know me know that I wear a cross signet ring. It's actually my college class ring; I wanted something that I would want to c...

This paragraph from Alan Hirsch's The Forgotten Ways encapsulates much of where my thinking is at recently: Speaking to the insecurity ...

Wise words from David Wayne, the "JollyBlogger," on relevance and the gospel : All these years I have been in ministry and have be...

Check out this graphic: The Jobless Rate for People Like You - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com . It shows the various jobless rates for va...

Has Modern Conservatism Become a Cult? » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog The vast majority of the right subscribes to a form of liberta...

I'm not generally a fan of this type of video - basically spoken text - but the message of this one is pretty powerful. Very challenging...

I obviously haven't kept up with the site for a while, and came back to find that a few things had fallen into disrepair. Sorry if that ...

W hat did it mean for Jesus to rise again? Of course the disciples would be overjoyed to see their friend and mentor again. But beyond that;...

What must it have been like? You've been following him for the better part of three years. You've seen amazing things that no one el...

    The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial fle...

T he last thing that Jesus does, before the events that directly lead to the Crucifixion, is eat the Passover meal with his disciples ( Mk. ...

D uring Passion Week, a number of pronouncement narratives are related ( Mk 12:13-44 and parallels). You may have noticed that in many type...

A fter Jesus cleansed the Temple, all the Synoptics record Jesus' authority being challenged ( Mk. 11:27-33; Mt. 21:23-27; Lk. 20:1-8 )....

Just a change of title; no new material. T he synoptic tradition places Jesus' cleansing of the Temple on Monday of Holy Week ( Mk. 11:1...

Just a change of title; no new material. P alm Sunday marks the beginning of Passion Week, the final week leading up to Jesus' crucifixi...

I n his essay, The View from the Mastaba (ostensibly a book review of Kenneth E. Bailey's new book, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: ...