A reader called recently to complain, not so much about a particular article, but about a certain kind of article. The latest example was Arthur Droge’s “Did Paul Commit Suicide?” BR 05:06. (For letters on this article, see Readers Reply) But that wasn’t the only one. Another was “Can Scholars Take the Virgin Birth Seriously?” BR 04:05, by J. Edward Barrett. A third—this person read the magazine carefully and remembered it well—was Jerome Murphy-O’Connor’s “What Really Happened at the Transfiguration?” BR 03:03. These articles—and perhaps some others—were, the reader said, “off-the-wall.” He suggested we printed them just to provoke […]
