This year is the first year I have ever had to teach Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Up until this year, I had never read it. It is set during the Salem witch trials of 1692 but is really Miller’s artistic commentary on “McCarthyism” and “The Red Scare” in the early 1950s. I knew the basics…
One Old Testament prophet that often gets overlooked is Habakkuk. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Only Habakkuk? Outside of a handful of verses mainly in Isaiah, Jeremiah…maybe Ezekiel’s “Valley of Dry Bones”…and a smattering of OT Messianic prophecies scattered somewhere in the minor prophets, what Old Testament prophet doesn’t get overlooked?” Touche…thanks for the…
It has been three months since I last wrote anything here on my blog. I’m going to finally get around to get back into the swing of things by completing my series on Irenaeus’ work, Against Heresies. In this post, I’m going to provide an overview of Book 2, where Irenaeus specifically contrasts Church teaching…
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In this fifth post in my book analysis of Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I want to cover 1.24-31. In these chapters, Irenaeus provides his readers with a bird’s eye view of all the various heretical groups of his day. Simon Magus (from Acts 8)In 1.24, Irenaeus traces the various Gnostic sects of his day back to…
Throughout Part 1 of Against Heresies, Irenaeus gives long, detailed, and extremely confusing explanations of all the teachings of the various Gnostic heretical schools that were around at the time. I gave a truncated “Reader’s Digest” overview of the basics of many of the Gnostic systems in Part 1 of this blog series. What I…
Here in Part 3 of my series on Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I’m going to focus Chapter 10 of Book 1, where, after detailing the particulars of Gnostic teachings in the first nine chapters, he contrasts all that with the unity and core teaching of the Apostolic Church. Now, there are many so-called scholars these days…
Over this past year, as I have been reading and paraphrasing Irenaeus’ Against Heresies, I knew that I was going to do a blog series on it. Now, here I am, reading to go through this amazing work of one of my favorite early Church Fathers. To tell you the truth, it is a bit…
Over this past year of 2025, I have been engaged in a personal project involving reading through the two works of Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies and On the Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching, and then condensing and paraphrasing them into more readable English than the formal academic translations that are out there. I started this…
As Jim Morrison famously sang, “This is the end!” Over these past two weeks, I have taken a tour through Kipp Davis’ recent book, God’s Propaganda. I’ve tried to acknowledge points with which I agree, and although I have been obviously snarky and sarcastic at times over some of his claims that I find simply…