Aaron Mead
The Meaning of Easter
Christ's resurrection determines the meaning of Easter. But what is the significance of that resurrection?
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Historical Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist
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Aaron Mead
Dec 25, 20236 min read
Baby Jesus Goes to War: A Christmas Reflection
The multitude of angels wasn't a choir. It was an army.
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Aaron Mead
Dec 13, 20235 min read
Advent Waiting
What are we (Advent) waiting for?
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Aaron Mead
Jun 10, 20236 min read
What's Your Rest Ethic?
A healthy work ethic requires a healthy rest ethic. But what exactly is rest, and what makes it good?
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Aaron Mead
Feb 7, 20239 min read
Slavery in the New Testament, Part 3: Glimmers of Justice
Five problematic New Testament passages tell slaves to obey masters but also contain surprising glimmers of justice.
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Aaron Mead
Jan 20, 20237 min read
Slavery in the New Testament, Part 2: Seeds of Abolition
Bible readers rightly worry over Paul's view of slavery. However, the emancipatory passages in his writings complicate the story.
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Aaron Mead
Nov 18, 202210 min read
Backstory to Philemon: The Fugitive Slave Theory
What circumstance gave rise to the New Testament letter to Philemon? Was Onesimus a fugitive slave? Find answers here.
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Aaron Mead
Dec 28, 20215 min read
Slavery in the New Testament, Part 1: Expect Liberation
Jesus's ministry of liberation is critical context for interpreting five problem passages on slavery in the New Testament.
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Aaron Mead
Jan 20, 20195 min read
Mind the Gap: The Gospels and Oral Transmission
In recent posts (e.g., here and here), I’ve been writing about the authorship of the Gospels, and the degree to which Gospel content may...
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Aaron Mead
Dec 2, 20186 min read
Advent and the Gospel
Lately, I’ve been thinking about what, exactly, the message of the gospel is. Of course, the term ‘gospel’ means “good news.” The puzzle...
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Aaron Mead
Jul 23, 20186 min read
How to Write a Gospel: Borrow + Edit = Scripture
Do the four Gospels of the New Testament accurately represent the historical ministry of Jesus? The case that they do would seem more...
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Aaron Mead
Jun 26, 20188 min read
Who Wrote the Gospel according to Mark?
According to the traditional view, the four Gospels in the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (the “canonical” Gospels)—were...
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Aaron Mead
May 29, 20184 min read
The Historicity of the Gospels: Bart Ehrman’s Skeptical View
In Chapter 3 of How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman begins with a story from his days as a student at Moody Bible Institute in the 1970s....
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Aaron Mead
Apr 22, 20188 min read
…and then the apostle Paul sent the slave back to his master
Why did Paul send Onesimus back to Philemon? He didn't support slavery. Instead, he wanted Onesimus freed and the two brothers reconciled.
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Aaron Mead
Dec 12, 20178 min read
Pope Francis on the Lord’s Prayer: Leading Us into Temptation
Like the rest of the New Testament, the Lord’s Prayer was originally written in Koine Greek (though Jesus likely spoke it in Aramaic)....
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Aaron Mead
Oct 1, 20174 min read
Aquinas on the Virtues: Wisdom
The book of Proverbs tells us, “Wisdom cries out in the street; in the squares she raises her voice” (1:20). She cries out that people...
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Aaron Mead
Sep 24, 20174 min read
Aquinas on the Virtues: Understanding
Today I begin a series of posts on Thomas Aquinas’s view of the virtues. Most of my focus in this series will be on what are often called...
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Aaron Mead
Aug 20, 20173 min read
“Have to” or “Want to”?
At the beginning of last school year my daughter made a friend who has had an especially hard childhood. As the year wore on, she learned...
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Aaron Mead
Jul 16, 20174 min read
Obedience, Submission, and “Slave Morality”
According to Orlando Patterson, the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus wrote, “The height of misery is to live at another’s will”...
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Aaron Mead
Jul 9, 20174 min read
Aquinas on Christian Joy
I have often felt a tension in my theology when it comes to the concept of joy. On the one hand, in Galatians (5:22) Paul counts joy...
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