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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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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 26, 20203 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 17, 20204 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 10, 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
Sep 3, 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 28, 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 27, 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 21, 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 13, 20203 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
Aug 6, 20202 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 31, 20203 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
Jul 23, 20206 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
Jun 22, 20203 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 18, 20204 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
Feb 6, 20201 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...

Paige Patterson
Jan 20, 20204 min read


Acknowledging But Not Following Jesus
“Follow Me” asserted Jesus, “and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4:19). This suggests an obvious concern. Are people who do not...

Paige Patterson
Jan 3, 20203 min read


Can Baptists Learn Anything from Methodists?
In 1995, Dr. Thomas Oden, prolific author and Professor of Theology and Ethics at Drew University for more than thirty years, penned a...

Paige Patterson
Nov 22, 20194 min read


What has the church lost?
Almost everyone I know has an idea about what has become of the church in the contemporary era. I fear that what has been lost is a more...

Paige Patterson
Nov 22, 20193 min read


Come on, Dr. Jeffress!
Ah, come on now, Dr. Jeffress. Why don’t you just preach the gospel and leave politics to the social justice warriors who say that they...

Paige Patterson
Nov 19, 20192 min read


Standing Firm
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Heb. 13:8). Practically all else changes. God alone and the Word that He has...

Paige Patterson
Nov 10, 20194 min read
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