Danny Hays

The Greek letters for ICHTHUS.

With the Greek letters for ICHTHUS in the mosaics by the door! You can see it just barely in the video.

Exploring Roman Stobi (North Macedonia) @AncientRomeLive ECL Grant recipient!

So our new birdfeeder has a cool camera so we can see all the beautiful birds benefitting from it.

When Russ Meek took an elective Bible class in college, he found a mentor who loved scholarship and the church. He realized study can be an act of worship. New episode out now wherever you listen: buff.ly/XbvNXN6

The wait is over. The 2026 MLB season begins today

Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television. Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.

Gotta love this footnote by renowned scholar John Goldingay.

ICYMI “He [the LORD] defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. 19 And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt.”(Deuteronomy 10:18–19)

@CSNTM's new digital collections website is launching today. I enjoyed engineering and building this website. It was refined with feedback from various people, but I hope researchers especially find it useful since it was built by one! collections.csntm.org

As of today, I am able to accept PhD students at the University of St Andrews. If you or one of your students are interested, @divinitysta is a wonderful place to study. All potential supervisors (including me!) are listed here with topics of interest: st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/prosp…

I just finished working thru Firth’s “Including the Stranger.” This is a really good, extraordinarily well-done book. I am writing the “Salvation for the Nations” vol in the IVP ESBT series, and for the Former Prophets section I wish I could just say, “See Firth.”

We took the grandkids to see the new David movie. It was really good and the kids loved it. By and large it followed Scripture. One thing they got right about the narrative is that the story is not about David & Goliath. It is about David & Saul. Goliath is a mere foil.

I’d like to share some advice I give to my students–especially those of my students who aspire to academic careers. Although it's natural and, in itself, good to desire and even seek affirmation, do not fall in love with applause. It is a drug. When you get some of it, you crave more. It can easily deflect you from your mission and vocation. In the end, what matters is not winning approval or gaining celebrity. Your mission and vocation is to seek the truth and to speak the truth as God gives you to grasp the truth. There is a particular danger for those who dissent, as I do, and as many of my graduate students and top undergraduate students do, from the reigning orthodoxies of the prevailing intellectual culture. You may be tempted to suppose that your willingness to defy the career-making (and potential career-breaking) mandarins of elite opinion immunizes you from addiction to affirmation and applause and guarantees your personal authenticity and intellectual integrity. It doesn’t. We are all vulnerable to the drug. The vulnerability never completely disappears. And the drug is toxic to the activity of thinking (and thus to the cause of truth-seeking). To me, the reality of this temptation, no less than any other temptation, should keep one mindful of the need constantly to tend the garden of one’s interior life. If anything can immunize us against the temptation to love applause above truth, it's prayer. We all need that immune system strengthener. Even those of us who think we are strong, who flatter ourselves with the thought that we are invulnerable to the lure of approval, are weak. In fact, in our self-flattery we are, perhaps, among the most vulnerable. It is so easy to think of oneself as Socrates … until the hemlock is served.

1903 World Series

It’s hard to believe I’m officially Dr. Wright.

@pastorcwright We’re proud of you, Chris!

#FrescoFriday - Fresco depicting Saint Nicholas, a historic 4th-century Christian saint and Greek Bishop of Myra in Lycia. The fresco adorns the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre (Turkey), built in AD 520 on the site of an earlier Christian church where Saint Nicholas served as a bishop and is buried. Tomorrow is his feast.

With faithfulness to the biblical witness, these authors explore Isaiah 1-39, discussing what it would have meant to their original audience & how that can inform what it is saying to the church today. amazon.com/Isaiah-vol-1-3…