Coming Untrue

Bear with me. This is trivial. And then maybe it isn’t. Last night I dreamed I drove down a long, winding highway in the dark to a gr...

I love this line: “Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad .” Hannah, who would become Samuel’s mothe...

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The careful student of scripture, as I have pointed out in two recent posts , gets his cues about appropriate Christian behaviour and ch...

In two previous posts , I’ve tried to distinguish between: (1) historical narrative in scripture, and (2) the commands of God — basicall...

Hey, I’m trying! I’m trying! Easy question: What do all these statements have in common? “ It’s locker room talk —  it’s one of t...

In response to the post Is and Ought , Tertius writes: “Long time Bible readers will make such distinctions, but perhaps not know the...

This quote has stuck with me over the past couple of weeks, maybe because it is not just those who would like the Bible to teach universa...

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Do you ever feel completely inadequate to the task of being a Christian? The space between God and man is quite a distance to bridge,...

The Bible tells it like it is, and most times it tells us what we should do about it. But not always at the same time, and not always in ...

Old Testament writers often describe God in human terms, though we know from other statements in scripture that many of the human qualiti...

Yesterday I mentioned one similarity between churches in 2016 and life in Israel in the time of the judges roughly three thousand years a...

Staring at the train wreck that is most of Western Christendom, it’s not hard to see one or two points of comparison with Israel’s early ...

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It’s 50 years since the first season of the original Star Trek TV series, so I’m rewatching some of those ancient episodes when I need a ...

We live in a religious climate in which atheists can be Protestant ministers . One in which the so-called Bishop of Rome insists the Kora...