Tag: god
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I Lived, I Laughed, I Left.
Twenty-five years ago, I was a college senior preparing to celebrate my 21st birthday. While many of my peers spent their 21st getting dunked in the school fountain after spending a night at clubs downtown, I was at the grocery store picking up a single serving bottle of wine to accompany the dinner I’d planned…
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Review of: “The Exegetical Process: How to Write a New Testament Exegesis Paper Step-By-Step” by Aída Besançon Spencer.
This review was originally published in the July 2026 issue of The Journal of The Evangelical Homiletics Society. For decades, Aída Besançon Spencer, Senior Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has trained students how to write exegesis papers. With the publication of The Exegetical Process: How to Write a New Testament Exegesis Paper…
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Review of: Exegetical Journeys in Biblical Hebrew: 90 days of Guided Reading by H. H. Hardy
This review was originally published in the November 2025 edition of The Africanus Journal. For students in language courses, avoiding a poor grade is generally enough to motivate diligent study during the first few weeks of language learning. However, when students get bogged down distinguishing Hiphils from Hophals, they may question why they are undertaking…
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Review of: “I Grew Up in the Church”: How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories by Bethany Ober Mannon
This review was originally published in the March 2026 issue of The Journal of The Evangelical Homiletics Society. In 2016, Beth Moore tweeted about her experience of sexual assault. Reading her remarks sparked the curiosity of rhetorician Bethany Mannon concerning the way evangelical women were using personal narrative as a rhetorical strategy. Her position as…
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You can’t spell Complementarianism without Arianism!
Part 3 of My Gender Role Journey Enrolling in Theology 1 (TH501) for my second seminary course in Spring of 2021 was intimidating. I knew enough about the New Testament to feel like I could hold my own in that class, but when it came to theology, I thought I’d be out of my depth.…
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