Coming Untrue

I don’t always believe everything Hebrew scholars say about their alphabet (or anything else). As I may have mentioned, they have a tenden...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Last week we discussed the “new normal” — that alm...

In our last segment of this serialization, we were looking at how a new belief system is currently penetrating evangelical congregations. ...

Dying is the great leveler. I work for an estate service these days, and I’ve seen the closing chapters of men and women on the high end...

“He found no chance to repent , though he sought it with tears.” Esau couldn’t turn back the clock and undo losing his birthright and bl...

“Was Jesus a Palestinian?” The word “Palestine” has an interesting etymology. It appears five centuries before Christ in the secular his...

The priesthood in Israel performed numerous functions, all of which have some spiritual application to Christian living. The Israelite a...

The first Waw [ ו ] in the Torah (pronounced vav ) begins its sixth Hebrew word, thus joining the words for “heaven” and “earth”. This is...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Men have always done it mid-life — some men, anywa...

Chapter 1: In the Side Door “For certain people have crept in unnoticed , those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnatio...

“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.” The saying is venerable, to be sure, but not old enough to merit inclusion ...

A few years ago I watched a friend melt down in slow motion. At the time I didn’t know it was coming. If I had known, I might have said ...

“What is a post-Christian society?” I remember first using the term “post-Christian” in the early 2000s. A Roman Catholic co-worker my ...

To my great amusement, last Sunday’s post inspired a text from a regular reader only a few hours after it went up, requesting I suggest a...

Gabriele Levy’s Alefbet entry for today’s letter reads : “ He [ ה ] represents divine revelation, the breath of the Creator (Psalm 33:6 ...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Tom: You sent me a horrible parody of a contempo...

Tom here. A Christian author IC knows recently gave ComingUntrue permission to do an online serialization of his yet-unpublished manuscrip...

Folks: I’ve been reading this little book from Regular Baptist Press lately, and have been rather impressed, I have to say. Not since R...

It’s been many years since I struggled with the issue of the New Testament canon. I was never in any doubt that the NT was God speaking,...

“What does it mean to be baptized for the dead?” The so-called Latter-day Saints or Mormons practice something they call proxy baptism, ...