He is the author of the 2011 book “God Behaving Badly: Is the God of the Old Testament Angry, Sexist and Racist?” He preached on Jan. 13, 2013 at Memorial Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., to help launch a sermon series the church is doing. RNS photo by Kellie Kotraba/Columbia Faith and Values. This image available for Web and print publication. For questions, contact Sally Morrow. The book has received mixed reviews in the Christian blogosphere, but Lamb was well received when he recently spoke at a church here. Religion News Service sat down with Lamb, an Old Testament scholar at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, Pa., to find out how believers’ long-held views of a wrathful Old Testament God might waver with his findings.