While the tide is slowly turning, many modern scholars and pastors still reject what the late Michael S. Heiser popularized as the divine council worldview (DCW). But it’s not entirely clear to me which claims they find controversial or difficult to accept, since it’s often accepted or rejected wholesale as a set of interconnected ideas. […]
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Jesus Is Yahweh, the Covenant God of Israel—and the World
Many Christians read their Old Testament and see in it mostly the story of God the Father, perhaps with occasional pre-incarnate appearances of the Son and the rare glimmer of the Holy Spirit. They think that human history can be broadly divided up into three continuous phases: In other words, the Father was the primary […]
AI in Christian Higher Education
Leading product at Logos in the Christian tech space, I’m involved in frequent discussion about AI. I’ll highlight two recent examples, specific to Christian higher education, hoping they can help to stimulate your own thinking and discussions on this important topic. “AI in Your Theological Research and Spiritual Study” Last month I had the chance […]
The Judgment of the Sons of God by the Sons of God
In Psalm 82, the psalmist describes the rebellious sons of God ruling unjustly over the nations (Ps 82:2–4) that Yahweh had allotted to them at Babel (Gen 10–11), which we read about in Deuteronomy 32:8 in the DSS and LXX. When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he […]
A New Era of Searching the Bible
Today marks a significant milestone in the history of Bible study software—and Bible study more broadly. Keep reading for the historical context or jump straight to the exciting news. One of the most fundamental aspects of Bible study is searching—finding multiple occurrences of a word, phrase, or lexical pattern to illuminate the meaning of a […]
Responsible Use of AI in Logos
Common Good magazine interviewed me a couple of months ago on Logos’s use of AI for Bible study and published a revised transcript as “AI within Your Theological Library.” If you’re interested to better understand how Logos’s theology of technology works itself out practically as we carefully apply advances in information technology in the form […]
A Biblical Theological Framing of Technology
The team at Logos asked me to write some thoughts on technology and how we at Logos think about the role of technology in the mission of the church and our for-profit business that exists to “use technology to equip the church to grow in the light of the Bible.” Many have angst about this […]
What Is the Gospel? How Genesis 12:3 and Galatians 3:8 Open Our Eyes to the Whole-Bible, Whole-World Good News
It seems like an elementary question with a simple answer. Almost every Sunday school child at gospel-preaching churches knows that the gospel is the good news about Jesus dying on the cross to save sinners through faith so they can be forgiven and have eternal life. While there’s a beautiful simplicity to the gospel that […]