Much Ado about the Talpiot Tomb – the Claimed Burial Place of Jesus and Family

I’ve built out a section of faithmaps.org with articles and reaction to the claims of Simcha Jacobovicia regarding the Talpiot Tomb. UPDATES: Lots of good information and thoughts available now on the Talpiot Tomb. In the Talpiot Tomb section of faithmaps.org we’ve added info from NT Wright Mark Goodacre at Duke Ben Witherington of Asbury [...]

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Writings by Fred Peatross

Fred’s opened up an online storefront with a number of interesting titles. emergesque readers would be most interested in his new “evolution of an emerging” featuring a brief interview with mike frost.

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Have We Found the Tomb of Jesus and his Wife?

“I feel sorry for Simcha, but I know how these things happen. One’s enthusiasm for a subject propels one into over-reaching when it comes to drawing conclusions. The problem with keeping these ideas secret for the sake of making a big splash of publicity, and lots of money, is that peer review by a panel [...]

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A Public Service: Lots of Reasons Not to Upgrade to Vista!

I had been considering it, but now I think I’ll wait!

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A Forthcoming Defense of Penal Substitutionary Atonement

justin taylor lets us know that Steve Jeffrey, Mike Ovey, and Andrew Sach are about to release a new book called Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution that’s entirely devoted to laying out the Penal Substitutionary Atonement theory that dominates evangelical soteriological thinking. Of the book, JI Packer comments: “Responds to [...]

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Anne Rice on Jesus Studies

Excerpted by George Woodliff from Interview with a Vampire author Anne Rice‘s note in Christ the Lord out of Egypt ” . . . Having started with the skeptical critics, those who take their cue from the earliest skeptical New Testament scholars of the Enlightenment, I expected to discover that their arguments would be frighteningly [...]

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Are you Incarnational, Attractional, or Both?

“There are two kinds of pastors: Those who are upset the church isn’t going to the lostThose who are upset the lost aren’t coming to church.” -Ben Arment Ben is the pastor of The History Church in Reston, VA. I like the quote because it captures the difference between incarnational evangelism and attractional evangelism. Mike [...]

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Presbyterian Church (USA) Congregations moving toward the Evangelical Presbyterian Church

“A network of Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations has one foot out the door after voting en masse to build a new bridge with the more conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church. The New Wineskins Association of Churches says it’s tired of battling the PCUSA over theology and policy and has found a better fit in the EPC, [...]

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John R.W. Stott’s The Cross of Christ and Penal Substitutionary Atonement

Last night I finished reading John RW Stott‘s book The Cross of Christ. I had been reading the 20th Anniversary Edition which was published in 2005. In that edition’s forward, Alister McGrath calls the book “the most respected and authoritative evangelical writing” dealing with the cross of Christ. He continues, “It is, in my view, [...]

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The Anglican Church Rebukes US Episcopal Church

Facing a possible churchwide schism, the Anglican Communion yesterday gave its Episcopal branch in the United States less than eight months to ban blessings of same-sex unions or risk a reduced role in the world’s third-largest Christian denomination. Anglican leaders also established a separate council and a vicar to help address the concerns of conservative [...]

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