As hard as it is to believe, The Matrix is 16 years old. As I sat in the movie theater, watching The Matrix for the first time, I had two distinct impressions. ...
It is ironic that the central question literary scholars ask concerning the identity of Moby Dick is virtually the exact same question biblical scholars ask con...
One of the main questions concerning Moby Dick is the exact identity of the white whale: is Moby Dick symbolic of God himself, or just symbolic of nat...
At various times in college, I attempted to read Moby Dick—I failed every time. My natural inclination was toward poetry, and Moby Dick was a novel…a long novel...
Back when I was in graduate school at Trinity Western University, I wrote my master’s thesis on the book of Jonah. There was one chapter of it, though, that I e...
In this post, I share yet another song from my childhood that was pivotal in the formation of my very worldview: Bob Bennett’s “Heart of the Matter....
As I continue going through the Christian music from the 1980’s that I listened to growing up, I feel compelled to share a song from the group Daniel Amos, a Ch...
Anyone who has known me since I was a kid can tell you one thing: I was a baseball nut. I not only collected baseball cards, I used them in my almost pathologic...
Having been through the “academic track” that has gotten me two master degrees and a PhD—all in Biblical Studies—one can say that I’ve spent quite a lot of time...
One of the biggest controversies within many Evangelical circles today revolves around the interpretation of Genesis 1-11. As I have written about many times, y...