Is the Gospel Good News? The 2015 Bingham Colloquium

I recently (June 4–5) attended the 2015 Bingham Colloquium at McMaster Divinity College (MDC), Hamilton, ON, Canada. MDC has (usually) annually sponsored the Bingham colloquium since 1995, held in honour of a prominent Baptist pastor and gathering biblical scholars and theologians from around the world to present their individual perspective on a selected topic. The […]

Congress 2015 of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Canada has a unique phenomenon of a single scholarly conference that brings together for a week in one place many if not virtually all of the professional societies of the humanities and social sciences. The various societies are staggered, so that similar groups overlap. This year the congress was held from May 30 to June […]

Thoughts on the Recent Greek Linguistics Book by Stanley Porter

This book (Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2015]), by one of our blog contributors, Stanley Porter, came out about a month or so ago, and I have had the privilege of receiving a copy of it. As I am currently working on my […]

CHEC Conference and the MDiv Program

Christian Higher Education Canada (CHEC)—an organization of about 35 Christ-centered (I would prefer the term evangelical, but using “Christ-centered” allows the Reformed paedobaptists to be included) institutions of higher education in Canada—held its triennial Forum in Winnipeg from May 25-27. CHEC includes seminaries and graduate schools, Bible colleges, and Christian universities. In the interests of […]

New Blog

Why another blog in an already crowded blogosphere? Good question (since you asked). The three contributors here discussed it for some time before we agreed to collaborate on this one. There are a lot of blogs out there that represent the singular positions of their writers. Many of them are much the same—with occasional postings, unhelpful book […]