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Ehrman Errant

Louis Markos

Can We Still Believe the Bible?:An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions By Craig L. Blomberg Brazos Press, 2014 304 pages, paper, $19.99 I feel great pity for Bart Ehrman....

Bilbo’s Journey from Grocer to Hero and Novel to Screen

Louis Markos

The careful reader of Genesis will notice an odd, countercultural pattern running throughout the book. Again and again, God privileges the younger son over the elder (Isaac over Ishmael,...

Loving the Sinner Without Loving the Sin

Louis Markos

I normally avoid documentaries that use questionable methods of Bible interpretation to promote the gay lifestyle as both natural and normative. For the Bible Tells Me So (2007), however,...