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About Benj

I’m a native North Jerseyan, transplanted to Pennsylvania...lived and taught in Eastern Europe for six years…Old Testament professor, author, minister, musician, liturgist…husband to Corrie…father to Daniel and Elizabeth.

Links: 7 June 2017

Posted on 7 June 2017 by Benj

Faith and Theology: Tweeting the trinity: because heresy is meh. Righteous Anger: Egypt’s Christians Respond to ISIS | News | Christianity Today Paul Ricoeur: The philosopher behind Emmanuel Macron. Perhaps the most famous Polish-Lithuanian writer: Why Czeslaw Milosz Still Matters | … Continue reading →

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My Journey to Affirming the Ordination of Women (Part IV)

Posted on 5 June 2017 by Benj

I remember when I was first exposed to the notion of women pastors–probably at the age of seven or eight. Continue reading →

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My Journey to Affirming the Ordination of Women (Part III)

Posted on 30 May 2017 by Benj

My former (and present) life in complementarianism… Continue reading →

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My Journey to Affirming the Ordination of Women (Part II)

Posted on 22 May 2017 by Benj

I’m not the prototypical convert from complementarianism to egalitarianism. Continue reading →

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Salvation in the Johannine Writings

Posted on 17 May 2017 by Benj

This is a paper I wrote for a Johannine Theology course with the late Herb Hirt in the Fall of 2009, entitled, “John’s theology of salvation (past, present and future).” Continue reading →

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My Journey to Affirming the Ordination of Women (Part I)

Posted on 15 May 2017 by Benj

In a series of posts, I will describe some of my journey to egalitarianism. I will not be making a detailed case for that position from Scripture; many scholars have done that much better than I could. Rather, this is more of a personal reflection on how my thinking on an issue has changed. Continue reading →

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Links: 10 May 2017

Posted on 10 May 2017 by Benj

Hank Hanegraaff’s Switch to Eastern Orthodoxy, Why People Make Such Changes, and Four Ways Evangelicals Might Respond. With apologies to my friends who’ve “swum the Bosphorus,” Ed Stetzer has said it better and more charitably than I ever could. Ghost in … Continue reading →

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May Update

Posted on 9 May 2017 by Benj

(Bi-)Monthly update… Continue reading →

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“Medical Insurance” Insurance?

Posted on 28 April 2017 by Benj

Private and public systems will both have rationing, profits, and costs. But a private system is much more nimble and can respond more quickly to patient demand, without the political process. Continue reading →

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Links: 21 April 2017

Posted on 21 April 2017 by Benj

Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails | Replicability-Index. Interestingly, a Nobel Prize winner comments on this article (scroll down) and admits he was wrong to accept the assumptions of this research. In the TANSTAAFL department: Paid … Continue reading →

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