Author Archives: Benj

Ben F. Meyer, on the early church’s understanding of the implications of Jesus’s resurrection: “[Their] strictly eschatological understanding of resurrection was, of course, distinct from the idea of the revivification of the dead as met with in the Elijah and … Continue reading →

Here’s a wonderfully compassionate open pastoral letter from Tim Dalrymple to all those who believed in Harold Camping’s rapture prediction. An excerpt: Tonight the Rapture Parties will go on. The atheists will gloat, the mockers will mock. Yet there’s nothing … Continue reading →

Lester L. Grabbe, Ezra-Nehemiah (New York: Routledge, 1998). Part of a holistic reading is not just to see how the text is structured and the parts fit the whole but also to recognize that sometimes a purely literary reading of … Continue reading →

Roger Pilon at Cato has some great work on the morality of the national debt and deficit spending: WSJ article: Is It Immoral To Cut the Budget? (UPDATE: Corrected link–HT: Brian H.) Cato Forum: The Moral Implications of Deficits, Debt, and … Continue reading →

This article in The Nation is not encouraging to those of us pursuing higher education in the humanities: A few years ago, when I was still teaching at Yale, I was approached by a student who was interested in going … Continue reading →