Last month I wrote a post entitled, “A Reflection: Disappointment…and Why I Don’t Like May or June.” It was somewhat of a personal post about some of the hardships and disappointments I’ve faced over the past few years. I received a number of encouraging responses to that post. Now, I haven’t written much on my…
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across this video on YouTube in which Frank Schaeffer was talking with Ken Medema back in 2016 at the Wild Goose Festival, essentially an arts and music festival geared toward more of a progressive/liberal form of Christianity. The reason the video caught my eye was because both men…
Over the past 16 years, I’ve realized that I’ve come to not really like the months of May or June. And here I am, in early June 2022, contemplating why that is so. Sixteen years ago, on June 3, 2006, I got married. Without going into any personal details, it was a marriage that was…
We now come to my last post in my book analysis series on David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History? in which he addresses the issue of Joshua’s Conquest and the subsequent settlement of the land. So, without much of an introduction, let’s just jump right into the main points of his argument. Let’s…
We’re now in Part 5 of my look at David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History? Of all the posts in his series, I think this will be my least favorite, for in chapters 11-13 of his book, Rohl carefully plots out his argument regarding what he feels is the most likely route of…
Here in Part 4 of my look at David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History? we are going to look at what he has to say about the figure of Moses and the actual Exodus itself. To get us from the time of Joseph to the time of Moses, though, Rohl first gives a…
Welcome to Part 3 of my look at David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History? in which he argues for a mid-15th century BC date for the Exodus, a late 15th-early 14th century date for Joshua’s Conquest, and a 17th century-15th century time period for the Hebrews’ sojourning in Egypt. In my first two…
In my previous post, I began to go through David Rohl’s book, The Exodus: Myth or History, by plotting out some of the main issues that need to be addressed when looking at the question of the historicity of the Exodus. Let me recap in the simplest terms. When it comes to dating the Exodus,…
It has been over a month since my last blog post. The end of the school year and other of life’s demands sometimes prevent blogpost writing. But here I am—done with my spring courses, with my child still in school for the next three weeks. I have time to write a few blog posts. Over…
I’m not sure how I want this post to be structured. The fact is that over the past few months, a whole bunch of thoughts have been swirling around my brain and trying to form themselves into some kind of coherent thing about what the title of this post is about. Yet is has been…