The Raw Beginnings in the Gospel of Mark Though I’ve read through the Gospel of Mark at least 40 times (and in three languages), this time reading the first two chapters struck me in a new way, with its rawness, its almost-violent use of language. There...
After I saw all those pink hats, and found out what they meant, I did what I never thought I'd do. I decided– and announced publicly– that I was going to start wearing a head covering while praying or speaking publicly at church. From most ancient of...
Come on, admit it. You're afraid that a new book on an archaeological discovery that validates the Bible is going to be some kind of pseudo-science junk, right? So read these endorsements (click on the link below): Discovering the City of Sodom...
This is an excerpt from a lesson in a series, and “drills down” to some of the principles that we must adopt if we are to have the mind of Christ. Specifically, we must factor into our thinking the fact that, without our knowledge, God contravenes or...
How deeply satisfying it is, to have a teenager I've never met, who is touched by my book The Hinge of Your History: The Phases of Faith and makes her own T-shirt design based on the book. (It reads: From a Promise to Contradiction, then Resolution).
A fellow author's challenge, to write what you can see through a one-inch frame about your childhood, led me to a photograph of myself. It’s an old Brownie camera photo, about three inches by three inches, but it’s a good, tight frame. And it’s filled with...