Paige Patterson
A Crazy Friend: A Tribute to Richard Headrick
Ambushed by an intended assailant one dark afternoon in Honduras, my crazy friend also survived being attacked and wounded in a knife...
ENGAGING EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT SUBJECTS IN THEOLOGY & CULTURE
IN HIS MORE THAN FOUR DECADES OF LEADERSHIP IN CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION,
Dr. Patterson has often offered students the opportunity to ask deep and difficult questions, placing himself in the proverbial “lion’s den.” Here, Dr. Patterson and various other well-known leaders will continue to help Christians wrestle with biblical texts, cultural dilemmas, and current issues. To submit a question into the Lion’s Den, simply send a message through the “Contact” tab above.
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Paige Patterson
- Oct 29, 2020
- 4 min
I Watched a Miracle
October 17, 2020, will not be quickly erased from memory. Place: Vermont. Event: Covid-19 delayed graduation. Graduates: Nine young...
Paige Patterson
- Oct 23, 2020
- 3 min
Innocent Blood
With some frequency I find occasion to object to something that someone says about me or does to me. But to promote myself as a “victim,”...
Paige Patterson
- Oct 16, 2020
- 4 min
My Problem with Galatians 5:22-26
Paige Patterson, I thought you were an inerrantist! I was under the impression that you believed every syllable of the Hebrew and Greek...
Paige Patterson
- Oct 9, 2020
- 3 min
I May Not Be That Hungry!
God has a sense of humor! In fact, I can almost hear God announcing to an audience of cherubim, “Ok, have a seat and just watch this.”...
Paige Patterson
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
A Tribute to Richard Headrick
October 5, 2020, is ineradicable in my mind. Early in the morning of the last day of his 77th breathtaking year on this earthly...
Paige Patterson
- Oct 1, 2020
- 3 min
Counterfeits
At the zenith of Solomon’s reign over Israel, the wise monarch employed his artisans to fashion, “two hundred large, decorative shields...
Paige Patterson
- Sep 26, 2020
- 3 min
Popularity: A Potential Heart Thief
Solomon’s accession to the throne of Israel c. 970 b.c. began as a triumph of conquest. Not only did Solomon avoid the coup attempt of...
Paige Patterson
- Sep 17, 2020
- 4 min
Tuskegee
Barreling up I-85 in a northeast direction out of Montgomery, Alabama, you will find an exit sign welcoming visitors to the Tuskegee...
Paige Patterson
- Sep 10, 2020
- 3 min
Catacombs
As a seventeen-year-old boy, my excitement was boundless as I boarded an old constellation airliner for a flight to Tokyo and an...
Paige Patterson
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
The Charm of Rivers
Imagine my surprise when my nephew Perry and his wife Amber presented a newborn child to our family and announced his name as “River.” No...
Paige Patterson
- Aug 28, 2020
- 3 min
Marhaba
“Marhaba, Tony,” said the voice that by its very tenor awakened the keenest expressions of love and adoration in the heart of the recent...
Paige Patterson
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Magor-Missabib
Magor-Missabib is a member of almost every Baptist church. He appears to be omnipresent. You will know him when you see him. He is a...
Paige Patterson
- Aug 21, 2020
- 3 min
Do What?!
Black clouds lingered over Jerusalem and Judah in 588 BC. Both Egyptian and Babylonian armies were rampant in the land. In just over a...
Paige Patterson
- Aug 13, 2020
- 3 min
Where are the Rechabites?
Conditions worsened in Jerusalem in 597 bc. A cursory reading of Jeremiah underscores the perfidy of the short-term King Jehoiakim and...
Paige Patterson
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
Back to the Reformation
The Reformers in Europe lived in jeopardy every day. Their determination to use their tongues to confess Christ and His offer of personal...
Paige Patterson
- Jul 31, 2020
- 3 min
Hananiahization
Hananiah, son of Azur (Jer 28:1), ostensibly a prophet of Judah working in the ferment of early 6th century bc, claimed to be the...
Paige Patterson
- Jul 23, 2020
- 6 min
Learning from Precocious Methodists
Dr. Chuck Kelley recently advanced my education. While that is not a difficult task, I remain most grateful to him. In my late teens, I...
Paige Patterson
- Jun 22, 2020
- 3 min
Vines, Hawkins, and Okinaga
One of the saddest components of upper-level education is that budding young scholars spend a year or more in research and writing only...
Paige Patterson
- Feb 18, 2020
- 4 min
Teen Girls—And Everyone Else
America has become the “culture of shame,” ravaged by increasing numbers of cases of abuse of women and that often at the hands of...