The End (of the year) is Here! Let’s Do a Top Ten List!
It has been a pretty good year for resurrecting orthodoxy–at least as far as my little corner of the blogosphere is concerned. This morning I looked back ...
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The Last Jedi: The Second Time Got Me Thinking About a Few Things….
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new Star Wars movies that has just come out—The Last Jedi. Okay, obviously you’ve heard about it. And you’re probably well...
A Tribute to my Grandpa Anderson, on the 20th Anniversary of His Last Christmas
In July of 1997, after finishing a master’s degree in the New Testament at Regent College, I went with my dad to visit my grandparents, Lennart and Margaret And...
Getting a Handle on the Old Testament Story (Part 2): The Kingdom of Israel to Exile to Return
King David and the Kingdom of Israel It is in the book of I Samuel where we find the Hebrews demanding to have a king. YHWH did not want them to have a king lik...
Getting a Handle on the Old Testament Story (Part 1): Merry Christmas–I’m Giving You the Gift of Old Testament Understanding!
The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books, written roughly over a span of 1,000 years, and it covers the entire history of ancient Israel. It contains narra...
Getting a Handle on the Early Church Councils (Part 3): The “Ain’t Nothin’ but a Gangsta” Synod…and Chalcedon
As it turned out, the Formula of Reunion of 433 didn’t sit too well with the more fanatical elements of Cyril’s allies. Cyril had so violently attacked Nestoriu...
Getting a Handle on the Early Church Councils (Part 2): The Third Council of Ephesus, AD 431–Hold On, the Ride is Going to Get Bumpy
The tares of politics, intrigue, and fanaticism have always grown up side by side the wheat of the Gospel as it works its way throughout human history. No bette...
Getting a Handle on the Early Church Councils (Part 1): Heresies, Nicea, and Constantinople
***The next three posts are taken from a Church history unit I wrote as a high school teacher, and they are based on a book I had read entitled, Jesus Wars, by ...
Thorns, Thornbushes, and the Bleeding Crown of Life (Reflections on so much outrage in our current society)
“Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, wher...
Women, Wonder, and Creativity (An Answer to Sexual Harassment and the Weinsteins of the World (Part 2)
In my last post, I began to address the recent flood of sexual harassment allegations and revelations that have come out against many Hollywood executives and p...