A Study of Angels

An Application of the Correspondence and Connective Theories of Truth By Michael Strawn and Latayne C. Scott           The subject of angel activity on earth is a “hot issue” both in theological and secular circles.            One common misconception held...

Where the Bad Men Are

Don’t take me to the place where the bad men are, she says. Take me somewhere else, she says beneath her shawl. No, he says, we won’t go there. Take me to our friends, our people, she says, her belly seizing now. Don’t take me to a place of strangers. No, he says, we...

Skin of my Teeth; A Short Story

Skin of my Teeth someone could have looked at him and said well of course    he has a curved scar across his head from where the metal of the rim of a wheel of a horse-drawn wagon ran over him when he was a child well of course he was in the war where...

Competence: Mary and Martha

COMPETENCE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MEASUREMENT IN THE STORY OF MARY AND MARTHA Copyright  Latayne C. Scott The issue of competence is one that plagues Christians; and the knotty problem of what is proper for a Christian to measure and assess troubles us too. First...

Does God Change His Mind?

DOES GOD CHANGE HIS MIND? Exodus 32:14, in speaking of how God did not bring about disaster to the people of Israel says that He “changed His mind” (NAS).  The King James Version says He “repented,” while the NIV says He “relented.” A similar situation is...

The Blackened State

The Blackened State When I read a book, I often wonder what first sparked the author’s imagination to begin reading that book. Often it is to illustrate a moral dilemma, as you see in the writings of Jodi Picault. Others write books about their own lives; sometimes, I...