Do the New Testament documents tell the truth about what really happened in the first century? As I wrote in my last column, authors claiming to write history are unlikely to invent embarrassing details about themselves or their heroes. [...]

What are your most embarrassing moments? You don’t want to admit them. And if you do admit them, you certainly won’t add to your shame by inventing embarrassing moments about yourself to make you look even worse. Who’s going to lie to make himself look bad? [...]

It is a great tragedy that so much of the modern Church in the West has neglected the essential role of the [...]

The debate between Dr. Brown and Dr. Ehrman, entitled “Does the Bible Provide an Adequate Answer to the Problem of Suffering?”, will be at Ohio State University on April 15th and will be broadcast live over the web. Click here for more information. Ehrman is a leading New Testament critic and has written [...]

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? …. for that would be a fire that consumes [...]

Appalling grace, how bleak the sound, that teased a wretch like me.
I still am lost, though almost found, am bound and still not free.
I was moved to pen these lines after reading Mark Galli’s recent article, “The Scandal of the Public Evangelical: What we really have to have to offer the [...]

Holiness is beautiful; legalism is binding; holiness brings life; legalism brings death. They are different as night and day, and yet at first glance, they can seem similar, because they both stand against sinful behavior and call for holy living. How can [...]

Note from the Author: I have taken it upon myself to share with you a part of a booklet I put together entitled ‘Jesus Ministry’. It was written especially for young people, who have perhaps been going through the motions of church life without knowing ‘the reason for existence’ and the reality of the Kingdom [...]

Acts 7: 37 - 45 (Stephen’s address)

“This is that Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will send you a prophet like me from your own people.’ He was in the assembly in the desert, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living words to pass on to us.

“But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in [...]

On January 10th, VOR posted Dr. Brown’s The Hollow Sound of Anti-Israel Protests article on our Daily Kos diary.  Daily Kos is known as one of the most liberal sites on the net, thus it is no surprise that response to the article in the comments section was quite negative (perhaps vitriolic is the more [...]