Paige Patterson
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,”...
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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 15, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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 5, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20206 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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...
Paige Patterson
Feb 6, 20201 min read
A Tribute to Dr. James Leo Garrett
Dr. James Leo Garrett slipped away into heaven yesterday under circumstances a little different than those of the average believer....
Paige Patterson
Jan 20, 20204 min read
A Tribute to Dub Jackson
Asahikawa – a city of 170,000 souls perched in the northern sphere of Hokkaido, the northernmost large island of Japan – is well known to...
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