It’s been a whirlwind of running around, grabbing coffee on the go, cutting through the humidity across campus to get to classes… yes, the Fall 2014 semester has begun! Among the highlights this week has…
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The 2014 Nils W. Lund Memorial Lectureship
Every year, North Park Theological Seminary not only holds the prestigious Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, but also sponsors the Lund Lectures which invites one Old Testament scholar and a New Testament scholar…
The Sting of Death according to Paul
In a previous post on common popular fears surrounding the afterlife (here), I commented on Virgil’s depiction of Hades in the Aeneid and showed pictorially one anonymous artist’s rendition of the three judges of Hades…
Wake Up O Sleeper!
In my previous post on the grave reliefs depicting the agony of separation between the deceased and surviving family (here), I shared how many people in the Greco-Roman world grieved over the prospect of never…
August Preview from the Chicago Botanical Garden
My parents are visiting from California and are here for two weeks spending their time with the grandsons, and then on occasion they’ll talk to me as well. But it’s been tough to find time…
Preview of Fire in My Soul: Essays in Honor of Seyoon Kim
At the request of Wipf & Stock, I am dedicating a post on the newly published Festschrift entitled: Fire in My Soul: Essays on Pauline Soteriology and the Gospels in Honor of Seyoon Kim. Here…
Popular Fear and Dread of the Afterlife
Before I can post on philosophical criticisms lodged against fearing death, I need to outline what those fears were. As illustrated in the last post, the Attic grave reliefs showed how people feared the finality of…