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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.

Supporting Israel, Part III

I offer some reasons why my Reformed friends (and others!) should be sympathetic to Israel. Continue reading

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Supporting Israel, Part II

Why Dispensationalists Should Hesitate to Support Israel… Continue reading

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Supporting Israel, Part I

So much commentary on Israel and Palestine is hopelessly biased and frustratingly shallow… Continue reading

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Too Small

To the political junkie, to the sports fan, to the gossip girl, the historian says: Your narrative is too small.

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Update: Candidacies, Proposals, Teachings

This will be quite a quarter of instruction. Continue reading

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Romans 15: “I Have a Dream”

A sermon at Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne, NJ, on April 22, 2012. Continue reading

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Links: 21 April 2012

As an American studying abroad, I was surprised to discover that Stellenbosch, a public university, has a school of theology that trains ministers for the Christian church. Prof. Brand in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology has written an … Continue reading

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Lamentations and the Holocaust

Sometimes the suffering soul needs to be given a voice rather than chicken soup…. Continue reading

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Cultural Mirror

What does this say about our culture? Continue reading

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A Bedtime Story

There once was a group of business owners who owned competing businesses. These business owners formed an oligopoly: between them they controlled nearly all of their nation’s trade in their product. As members of an oligopoly tend to do, these business owners banded together in collusion–something which was illegal in that country–yet they were granted a special exemption from antitrust legislation by their government… Continue reading

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