If you are in the habit of wasting time on the Internet you have probably heard of the Twitter account “Libs of TikTok.” The tweets consist of captioned video clips from the social media site TikTok, the topics mostly having to do with LBGT+ issues. Libs of TikTok has been fodder for Internet outrage in […]

In 2013, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote a book, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. The book’s main thesis is that several streams in what is considered mainstream American Christianity are actually Christian heresies. He points to three “gospels” in particular: the prosperity gospel of the likes of Joel Osteen, […]

Damar Hamlin is the starting safety for the Buffalo Bills NFL football team. On January 2nd’s Monday Night Football game Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest while the sporting world watched. For over an hour stunned sports personalities and commentators struggled to find something to say on the air as Hamlin’s life hung in the balance. There […]

A previous post examined Ancient Apocalypse, the Netflix docuseries by Graham Hancock. There are things about the ancient world that still baffle the modern mind. How ancient people could move massive stones without the aid of heavy machinery to build the Great Pyramids, for example. Or, carve stone blocks with such precision that a sheet […]

In November, Netflix released Ancient Apocalypse, a docuseries from Graham Hancock on his theory of an ancient global civilization that was wiped out by a deluge at the end of the last ice age. The show has generated a torrent of outrage and indignation on the internet from archeologists, scientists and the media. In one […]

Perhaps the best known and most iconic of all biblical stories is that of Jonah — so much so that the story is often referred to as “Jonah and the Whale” in much the same fashion as the fable “Jack and the Beanstalk.” There is much discussion within Christian circles as to the genre to […]

The creation of headlines and book titles in the modern age has become something of an art form. To be successful in the noisy media world the ability to attract attention to one’s work is crucial. Titles must be provocative and compelling at the same time. The provocative part is never a problem as the […]

The previous post outlined how the strict literalistic view of the Word of God is a barrier to belief. It noted the irony that when a literal meaning is imposing on a text rather than being drawn from it the meaning is distorted and undermines rather than reinforces the Word of God. This post examines […]

One of the pillars of Christian faith is the belief that the Bible is the Word of God and, as one church denomination puts it, “…the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine and conduct.” The notion of the “Word of God” is tossed about as though that to which it refers is clear and obvious. […]

Part three examined the suffering servant passages in Isaiah and posited that suffering is a part of human life. So is death. Overcoming death is the ultimate goal of the kingdom and there are echos of it throughout the Old Testament. In the book of the Psalms, “I love the Lord, because he has heard […]