A few days ago, Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis wrote a blog post entitled, “The 6,000 Year War,” in which he took aim at William Lane Craig and Phil Vischer (the Veggie Tales guy) for promoting compromise in the church and for “attacking” Ken Ham…because we all know that when one dares to say…
A couple of weeks ago, someone sent me a message that he had written a critique of some of my earlier blog posts regarding the issues of theistic evolution, Adam and Eve, and original sin. I’ll link his critique here: An Orthodox Critique of Dr. Joel Anderson. His story seems to be pretty interesting—a former…
Just yesterday I happened across as Tweet from Pete Enns, in which he re-posted a short post he wrote back in 2017 about James 1:6, the verse that says the following (I’ll give James 1:5-8 to provide a bit more context): 5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously…
Here in my fourth and final post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I am going to give a very brief overview of the final two chapters in the books and then give some final thoughts. Chapter 6: What Shall We Do with This Rage?As the title suggests, McCaulley begins this chapter by highlighting…
Here in my third post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I’m going to look at Chapter 4, “Reading While Black—The Bible and the Pursuit of Justice,” and Chapter 5, “Black and Proud—The Bible and Black Identity.” Chapter 4: “Reading While Black—The Bible and the Pursuit of Justice”McCaulley begins this chapter by recalling the…
Here in my second post on Esau McCaulley’s book, Reading While Black, I am going to provide an overview chapters 2 and 3. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Freedom is No Fear: The New Testament and a Theology of Policing,” and Chapter 3 is entitled, “Tired Feet, Rested Souls: The New Testament and the Political Witness…
Last fall, Esau McCaulley, an assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, came out with his book, Reading While Black: An African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope. To be honest, even though I bought it soon after it came out, it had remained on my desk, unread for a while. Part…
Rhapsody on a Windy Night has always been one of my favorite poems by T.S. Eliot. In many ways, it is one of the easiest to read and understand. As the title suggests, the setting of the poem takes place in one night, from the time of midnight to four in the morning. It is…
T.S. Eliot’s poem Portrait of a Lady was first published in 1917, in Eliot’s book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations. The poem is about guilt and broken relationships, and in the course of the poem, there are essentially three voices: (a) the man and his “inner voice,” (b) the man and his “outer mask”…
It really says something about how difficult T.S. Eliot’s poetry can be when the one, if not only, poem almost every high school English Literature curriculum has of Eliot’s is The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. That poem, among all the poetry of Eliot, is evidently considered to be the easiest—and it isn’t that…