A Big Easy Lazy Lie
Once “they” convince you that all the suffering in the world is caused by one easily identifiable group of people (Oppressors) with all the advantages and all the power… people…
A Monochromatic Blaze from Multispectral Anguish… Yeah, You Read that Right
Ephesians 4:26: Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. Proverbs 15:1: A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word…
Shamefully Shaming Shame
Shame is bad… right?! Our whole society today cries how terrible it is. Only people who shame others should be made to feel shame. So shame must be bad, right?!!…
I Hate Father’s Day—a Tribute to Fathers
I was at a low place one Father’s Day when I’d first begun my PhD. I did not know it at the time, but I was six months down my…
Wisdom, Folly & “Blaming the Victim”
I recently saw a picture of young woman from India holding up a sign that read “Don’t ask your daughters not to go out, Ask your SONS to BEHAVE.” (sic)…
I Pity Stunningly Beautiful People
There is an Episode of 30 Rock, called “The Bubble” in which Liz (Tina Fey) begins to date a character played by John Ham, whose good looks have allowed him…
Contempt for the Fearful: A Response to “The Greatest False Idol of Modern Christianity”
I’m the last person who should criticize another person for writing an aggressive article that seeks to make a single point in exclusion to a myriad of other points that…
Mao + Stalin + Hitler + Modern Technology = X. Solve for X.
The struggle for power is as natural to human nature as love and hate. On a sociological scale it is as fundamental to the patterns of history and culture as…
Three Great Prophetic Truths that Transformed the World Part 2: Idolatry is an Abomination
One can hardly keep from noticing that the writing prophets (Isaiah through Malachi) seem a tad preoccupied with combating the societal inclination in Israel (and the nations) to Idolatry. We…
Three Great Prophetic Truths that Transformed the World, Part 1: Did Judaism & Christianity Improve the World?
An atheist close to me was raised as a conservative Christian. The gospel never penetrated his heart, but he was, on the whole, a well behaved kid who absorbed a…
Woe the Implacable Heart
One of the transforming insights I’ve gained over the last few years regards the blindness, deafness, insensibility of the human heart. I sit stupefied at the depth of human evil…
Natural Rights are Boring, I Want Something for Nothing
The first Law, planted in Genesis 9:6 like a seed in the human race, sprouting into all just law as the ages have passed, is rooted in that one all…
There Ought-a Be a Law: Emotions, Desire, and Social Paradigm
If you have a powerful sense of justice like I do, an inner hot spring of raging desire for recompense upon the wicked who abuse, rob and destroy others in…
Striving for the Impossible… and loving it
I love the word asymptotic. I’m not a mathematician. No offense intended to all you left brained calculus types, but I actually hate doing math. It seems to me, however,…
Worst Nelson Mandela Quote Ever
I have a lot of respect for Nelson Mandela on a personal level. He came back from years of imprisonment over his resistance to institutionalized racism and, yet, took an…
Egalitarianism as a Power Struggle
Today we have a guest post from Darrel Cox, Ph.D. Professor of Biblical Studies at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, VA. He has a Ph.D. in Theological Studies from Trinity…
Could Someone Please Define Racist for Me?
Let me say for starters that I don’t watch Duck Dynasty, don’t agree or disagree with anything about their statements for absolute sure (having no real context for it) save…
“Inconceivable!” When Old Words and New Meanings Meet in Bible Study
Today is a guest post by Scott A. Woodlee, pastor of Franklin Alliance Church (in Franklin, PA) and a contributor with Biblical Literacy Ministries. In the movie The Princess Bride…
Hey Millennials! Hollywood is a Bunch of Big Fat Liars!
In my post, “Confessions of a Troglodyte,” I attempted to share my frustrations as a biblical scholar trying to teach or dialogue with those who are quintessential Millennials, those who…
Isn’t Anyone Afraid?—Sex without Consequence & the Changing of a Paradigm
Technology has done many wonderful things for human existence. The power of our infrastructure has made survival likely (though none of us are getting out of this world alive till…