Coming Untrue

As I write this, I haven’t had breakfast yet. I will shortly. There’s food in the fridge, and money in the bank if I opt to step out for...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. We’ve talked a lot about Calvinism here over th...

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I’m sitting in the vet’s office with a very unhappy young feline. She was okay in the car; a little curious but not overly concerned. No...

Yesterday in this space I mulled over the question of whether or not pets go to heaven. The post was mostly speculative. Why? Because, a...

“Will my pet go to heaven?” As a pet owner and lover, I have no small vested interest in the question myself. That said, given what ...

Christianity has been called a crutch, an opiate, a panacea and “wish-fulfillment”. The prevailing theory among its detractors is that w...

King Saul had a burial. When he fell in battle with the Philistines, his enemies decapitated him and fastened his body to the wall o...

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Most people use the expression “Render unto Caesar” as a slightly more literary way of saying “Pay your taxes.” The phrase is so univers...

Detail from Meister Francke’s Resurrection , ca. 1424 I read a lot of fiction. I always have. And, like most avid readers, I can tell ...

“What are valid reasons to break up?” If you are talking about breaking up a marriage on a permanent basis, the only possible valid ...

You remember the widow, right? I know, I know, there are more than a few widows in the Bible. I mean the one at the temple in Jerusa...

Work is not in itself a product of the Fall. God made man to “ have dominion ”. Even ruling is not a passive undertaking; it requires d...

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Done properly, Bible translation is really just the search for truth. It attempts to represent the original text in another language to ...

It is estimated the kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria in 722 BC. The kingdom of Judah came to its own rather ignominious end 126 years l...

“Is being depressed a sin?” One of our guest authors dealt admirably with the question of the alleged “sinfulness” of grief back in...