With the passage of time, the extraordinary can become ordinary. The revolutionary can seem normal. Take trial by jury. When introduced in England, jury trial was a monumental… read more

Our world is pretty topsy-turvy right now, and we may find some comfort in the events and/or people we can count on that come around when we expect them. However, many of those… read more

Join Rachel and Ben for this conversation with Dr. Amy-Jill Levine, as they discuss biblical interpretation, Bible study and the importance of reading scripture carefully. Dr… read more

Last semester I taught a class called Wesleyan Biblical Interpretation. We read a considerable number of Wesley’s writings along with a couple of secondary texts. Rereading… read more

I recently read through Scott J. Jones’s excellent book, John Wesley’s Conception and Use of Scripture (Kingswood, 1995). I’d read parts of it before… read more

The battle for the Bible In his must-read book, The Soul of America, historian Jon Meacham defines the struggle of our time as “The Battle for Our Better Angels.” I… read more