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Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington
Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original...

Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper
Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or...

Christian Humanist Profiles 256: Jeffrey Bilbro & David Henreckson
What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as...

Christian Humanist Profile 255: Michael F. Bird
If you don’t spend much time around Biblical-studies people, the neologism “parallelomania” might be a new one on you, so let me explain: for...

Christian Humanist Profiles 254: Gary Dorrien
History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be...

Christian Humanist Profiles 253: Eckart Frahm
Some of us first encounter them as the wicked city that Jonah eventually visits. For others they’re one of the Asian empires that Herodotus...