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  • SHIFT 2019-2020 Starts Tonight @ UCF

    Tonight, we kick off another year of SHIFT at UCF. Since last semester, we have been able to meet in the Student Union on Monday nights. Typically, Monday is one of the more high traffic days on campus, and the Student Union is obviously a great centralized location to have a college Bible study on…

  • Understanding Genesis: A Review Series

    Since October, I’ve been organizing my thoughts on Genesis. At this point, I’ve read enough books on understanding Genesis that I thought a review series was in order. In my first post back in October, I laid out some the issues related to reading and understanding Genesis well. This is a kind of re-up on…

  • Christmas Book List: Science

    For this week, I wanted to focus on larger volumes that might make good last minute Christmas gifts. Or, if you prefer, books you should keep in mind for when you get that Amazon Gift Card. I decided to work through them in pairs, and we’ll start with the science books. Some might take offense…

  • The Genetic Fallacy and Reading Genesis

    Ever since I graduated from seminary, I’ve had to deal with the issue of credentials. This has come up in the church and in the classroom. When I first started teaching Bible, I had students who thought because they grew up in church, they pretty much had the Bible figured out. As I would challenge…

  • Reading Science for Reading Genesis Well

    You may remember at the beginning of October I started a series, Genesis, Science, and Making Sense of it All. You may not remember that, and that’s ok. This is actually only the second post, and you’ll notice it is yet another stack of books. About half of these I didn’t have when I posted last,…

  • Genesis, Science, and Making Sense of It All

    I have a wide variety of reading interests. They mostly relate to classes I teach, but I also have some long standing research interests. And perhaps the longest standing is what to think about Genesis as a book of the Bible and its relation to modern scientific thought. From what I have read and studied,…

  • How I Changed My Mind About Evolution

    I realize the title is a bit clickbaity. But, it is the name of an actual book from IVP Academic that I actually read. How I Changed My Mind About Evolution: Evangelicals Reflect on Faith and Science is a collection of essays edited by Kathryn Applegate and J. B. Stump. The former is the program director…

  • The Soul of Shame: Retelling The Stories We Believe About Ourselves

    We all have a story. One thing all of stories unfortunately have in common is incidents of shame. To one degree or another, shame becomes part of virtually all of our stories. For some, it is not an incidental detail in a larger story but the bulk of the story itself. Along these lines, Curt…

  • The Great Christ Comet: Revealing The True Star of Bethlehem

    I’m usually skeptical of books like this. However, I was intrigued after seeing someone who teaches astronomy review it on TGC (you’ll notice he has the same feeling I do about books like this). Since I had the ability to easily receive the e-Book from Crossway, I decided it was worth checking into. The endorsements are from…

  • Christmas: The Original Star Wars (No Spoilers)

    Yesterday, the stars aligned in an interesting way. It was the last day of classes before break and I wanted to spend some time reading the Christmas story in class. It was also, as you well know, the opening night for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which I saw, no comment). I had also been…