A recent conversation caught me breathless and deeply burdened for my neighbors. A street vendor I regularly buy vegetables from surveyed all of the uncertainties …

At the outset of the present quarantine, everything was bizarre, electric, and controversial. People filled their time arguing over lethality, R₀ rates, and balancing lives …

You’re a pastor and church is now cancelled for the foreseeable future. The US Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin just went on record that we should …

I, like you, am tired of thinking about COVID-19 already, though my browsing history might betray me. I’ll abstain from taking a side on whether …

The Late Show is hardly a bellwether for the state of America’s philosophizing or the condition of its soul. Except when it is. Several cultural …

The news just hit that another fabulously popular megapastor has been fired, apparently because of a long-standing, toxic culture of absolute power. I’m not very …

In his classic book on reading, Mortimer Adler comments, “All reading must to some degree be active…. The more active the reading the better.” His …

In his blisteringly skeptical book, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins gives his view of the God of the Old Testament: “The God of the Old …

This week we celebrated our tenth anniversary. Ten years ago I stood at the front of a church and cried my eyes out at the …

This is the second post on understanding the Old Testament. You can read the first post here. In a previous post I discussed Marcion, the …