The most cursory glance at the history of Western literature reveals that it has been deeply influenced by the Bible. Some of the greatest classics of Western literature draw their plots, charact...
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Few themes emerge as profoundly and persistently in the streams of biblical narrative as the conflict between light and darkness, and the juxtaposition of humanity with monstrosity. These themes ...
In John Wenham’s work, Easter Enigma, he devotes an entire chapter to Mary Magdalene, which is rephrased and summarized here. One of the interesting things that Wenham said was that Mary Magdal...
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God made man to live in a larger relational context, and even in high rebellion, man cannot escape his created nature. Instead, that nature takes revenge on rebellious man. Autonomous and alone, ...
Every advent of new media creates the justifiable reaction from some that the necessarily accompanied amputation may not be worth the extension made possible by the new tools. This is not unique ...
A response to Gage Crowder’s “The Hole in our Hope?” Already, the first pages of the Bible promise a bright future. The story starts with the creation of heaven and earth, where heaven is p...
A rejoinder to Bubu Jarmulak’s essay, “Embrace Pessimism.” Whereas calumnious critiques are reflections of more on the critic than the work criticized, good critiques are always opportuniti...
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Several decades ago, a pastor (and friend) mentioned in passing at one of our regular breakfasts together that he wasn’t satisfied with the usual reading of Jesus’s prayer in Gethsemane, the ...
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On May 21, 1604, the cathedral of Toledo in Spain held job interviews for the post of choirmaster, the head of music at the church. The position had been vacated when the previous occupant, Alons...
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Imagine — counterfactually: on the night he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus held up an empty hand and said, ‘This is the blood of the covenant poured out for you. Drink of it.’ But there was n...
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