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Review of “A House Divided”

Posted on 1 December 2025 by Benj

Rev. Dr. T. David Gordon, Professor Emeritus at Grove City College and a PCA teaching elder, has written a very thoughtful review of my book, A House Divided, in the November 2025 edition of Ordained Servant. Continue reading →

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Presenting at International Conference, “Contested Narratives of David and Saul”

Posted on 17 September 2025 by Benj

I’m honored to have been invited to present at an online conference, “How did Benjaminite and Judean memories shape the stories of David and Saul? Contested Narratives of David and Saul,” hosted by Dr. JiSeong James Kwon of the Nehemiah Institute and Yonsei University’s Institute of Christianity and Korean Culture (ICKC), January 27–29, 2026.

My paper is entitled: ‘His Words Fell to the Ground’: Saul’s Unreliable Speech in First Samuel, the Social Contract, and Leadership Polemics in the Persian Period. Continue reading →

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Finding Healing and Refuge

Posted on 22 July 2024 by Benj

The ACNA Diocese of Pittsburgh asked me to write a blog post about my experience as minister-in-residence at Grace Anglican Church. Continue reading →

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Mary Harrington, “The Contraceptive Tetrad”

Posted on 19 November 2023 by Benj

"…No living human Other ever perfectly reflects you back; a relationship is not just about natural compatibility but growing into compatibility. By contrast, AI girlfriend/boyfriend/hentaifriend/otherkinfriend will reflect your desires back better and more completely than any individual human could. Thus … Continue reading →

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Update: Waiting in Hope

Posted on 7 November 2023 by Benj

Back in July, I shared here that our family had entered an unanticipated time of transition. I had encountered such a disagreement with the elders at our little church in Grove City that I felt compelled to resign. A lot has happened in the four months since that last update—many good things, even as we wait to discern what God has for us after this school year… Continue reading →

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A Strange and Unexpected Turn

Posted on 30 July 2023 by Benj

Today was my last Sunday as pastor of Center Church in Grove City. Continue reading →

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Article on Ezekiel 20

Posted on 25 January 2022 by Benj

I’m pleased to announce the publication of an essay in the journal Biblische Zeitschrift: “‘Anger Exhausted’ for the Sake of YHWH’s Name in Ezekiel 20: Did YHWH Really Relent from Wrath Poured Out on Israel?” Continue reading →

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Re-Forming Church Biblically

Posted on 7 July 2021 by Benj

Each tradition needs to think critically before simply adopting practices from other traditions—and perhaps seek out and retrieve better alternatives from its own past. Moreover, churches should be extremely cautious about introducing technology into our worship; it never merely replicates … Continue reading →

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Online “Church”: United, or Merely Simultaneous?

Posted on 19 June 2021 by Benj

If the entirety of my pre-COVID worship experience has been simply passive and receptive (hearing and observing the preaching and the musicians) while I am standing or sitting beside someone else in the assembly with whom I am barely acquainted—then there is little benefit to the incidental simultaneity of our passive reception of the information presented to us by the pastor or the worship leader. If this is all that church has been, then it is not surprising that people would feel little loss by introducing the mediating technology, i.e., receiving preaching and music while at home—with or without a pandemic. Continue reading →

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Pandemic Sermon: Numbers and Chronicles, “God Draws Near”

Posted on 17 June 2021 by Benj

Throughout this time many of us are simply missing human touch and human contact, and direct interaction not through a screen. We are doing the best we can, but it is not the same. I imagine those families in ancient Israel who had loved ones with skin diseases, who had to stay outside the camp or the city and only call out to one another from afar. But there is hope, there is Good News. God was not satisfied with living in a tent or a stone temple among his people. As John writes in his Gospel, “The Word became flesh, and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his glory.” Continue reading →

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