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Wesley Hill

The Rev. Wesley Hill, PhD is associate professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He is the author of five books including Easter: The Season of the Resurrection of Jesus (IVP, 2025).

People Who Hate Children

In Matthew, the child Jesus escaped slaughter just as Moses did in Exodus. But God became a hated child for the sake of all hated children.

Living by His Spirit

Graduates and spouses, families and friends, faculty and staff and trustees of Trinity, distinguished guests—it is an honor to speak to you tonight. I...

Remembering Richard Hays: Theologian of the Cross, Member of the New Community

“You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all,” said Paul to one of his churches (2 Cor. 3:2). The life and work of Richard Hays (1948-2025) is such a letter, and it will no doubt echo in the life of the church.

Easter Hesitation and Pentecostal Hope

I grew up hearing the story of Easter from before I knew how to talk, but I only noticed Matthew 28:16-17 when I was a...

‘Secular’ Neglect, Salvation Anyway:

Esther 5:9–8:14 and the Theology of the Book of Esther By Wesley Hill In my work as a New Testament professor, I regularly introduce students to...

Who is ‘Left Behind’? An Advent Meditation

By Wesley Hill One of the Gospel readings appointed for the Advent season used to send chills up my spine when I heard it as...

Communion and Disagreement in the New Testament: Acts 15

The following essay is excerpted from a chapter in When Churches in Communion Disagree, ed. Robert Heaney, Christopher Wells, and Pierre Whalon (Living Church...

Unchosen Family and the Crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention

By Wesley Hill A long number of springs ago, when I was living with some friends in Minnesota and tired of wintering in my dim basement...

Covenant Care in the Wilderness

Exodus 15:1-17:7 By Wesley Hill Growing up in church, I would sometimes encounter preachers trying to help us get a fresh angle of vision on Jesus’...

A Twenty-First Century Anglican Divine

Systematic Theology, Volume 2 The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity Processions and Persons By Katherine Sonderegger Fortress, pp. 416, $49 Tucked away near the end of Praying...