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Christar & BibleMesh Establish Training Partnership

Press Releases / March 6, 2020 March 9, 2020

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey—BibleMesh and the missions organization Christar have announced a new academic partnership for training cross-cultural workers to unreached people groups around the world. Under the partnership, Christar’s appointed workers will earn an academic certificate through BibleMesh’s online portal for trusted theological education. The certificate will serve as the official Bible and theology training …

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Male and Female He Created Them

BibleMesh, Culture, The Bible + Culture / March 4, 2020 March 4, 2020

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 (ESV) In April 2016, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that public schools may not discriminate against students on the basis of gender identity. Ruling in favor of a …

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How to Spot New Ideas in Theology—And Why it Matters

BibleMesh, By Garry Williams, Church History, Theology / March 2, 2020 April 3, 2020

We should be alert to both the importance of fresh theological work and its danger. There is no doubt that new insights through history have taken the church into a deeper understanding of the Scriptures, often in the context of defending the truth against error. And yet much novelty has itself been error, and even …

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Kind but Blind: Southern Churches and Slavery, 1850s

The Bible + Life / February 25, 2020 February 26, 2020

In July 1836, a black slave named Adam presented himself for membership in the First Baptist Church of Louisville, Mississippi. Most of the congregation was white, including Adam’s owner, but they accepted him into their church with a unanimous vote and great affection. The church clerk recorded the event: “Adam, a black brother owned by …

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Transgenderism in the Ancient World

The Bible + Culture, The Bible + Life / February 18, 2020 February 18, 2020

As Clement looked around his cosmopolitan city, the open displays of transgenderism broke his heart. Grown men wore bleach-blonde feminine hairstyles, donned see-through women’s clothing, smelled of perfume, and had their bodies shaved in public salons where passersby could observe the spectacle. Though males biologically, these men “detest[ed] the bloom of manliness,” as Clement put …

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God, Freedom, and Self-Definition

BibleMesh, By Garry Williams, Theology / February 11, 2020 April 3, 2020

Reflecting on God’s providence, John Webster writes: ‘God’s governance secures the creature’s freedom. If this fails to commend itself, it is because it contravenes a destructive convention according to which true freedom is indeterminacy and absolute spontaneity or it is nothing at all. To say that is to deny creatureliness. Freedom is existence in accordance …

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Christar & BibleMesh Establish Training Partnership

Male and Female He Created Them

How to Spot New Ideas in Theology—And Why it Matters

Kind but Blind: Southern Churches and Slavery, 1850s

Transgenderism in the Ancient World

God, Freedom, and Self-Definition

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