And you all know I don’t do memes – they’re evidence of a drought of ideas. But onto what I wanted to say: with the new month, I had decided I would begin a new habit – changing something about my life; kind
I am reminded of the story of Mary and Martha when Mary sits at the feet of Jesus while Martha is busy showing hospitality with “attitude” (Luke 10.38-42)! While hospitality was necessary (but without attitude), Mary has chosen the better portion, listening to the teaching of Jesus. We...
The difference between faith and belief can seem subtle, but it's actually pretty significant when we dig into what the Bible says. Belief is more about acknowledging something as true—like believing that God exists or that Jesus is the Son of God. But here’s the thing: belief alon...
“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.” I can hardly recall the start of when I began longing for “more” in my Christian life....
Knowing that expands into evidence that loss can also make new again. When the wars finally end, where will you be? With a perception of memory unbought, still in love with language that allows thinking and experience to weave together, and a longing that will never forget where I came ...
had decided all their actions, God had also decided when they should sin. Thus, by sinning, they claimed to be following God's plan for them. ... Accounts of the Ranters' behaviour shocked the country. The only problem for historians is that we cannot be sure ifthey actually existed. ...
were names relating to particular forms of the paper but at all times, all that ever actually existed was paper. "now, this sort of analysis applies to every ‘thing' that you care to think of. look at that table over there and this chair on which you are sitting. what are they ...
The relative silence here has partly been due to me giving myself some nice holiday time w/family in L.A., then having surgery to fix my right shoulder, then recovering from that and some complications (still underway, but the fact that I am doing this post is itself evidence of ...
Because it’s in my nature to do so (that is, because writing is the way I make sense of the world), I began journaling about my son Joseph within a few hours of his birth. That pastime gained importance when evidence suggested the little fellow might be having unusual problems, and ...
“Now we’re not so sure the Temple Mount fell into disrepair,” Meiron says. In addition, Barkay has found archival photographs taken during renovations of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the late 1930s that appear to reveal Byzantine mosaics beneath the structure—further evidence that some sort of...