Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Bishop Kallistos Ware (Part 1): The Journey

Over the next month or two, I have decided to do a series of book analyses on a number of books that have had a tremendous impact on my spiritual journey. For those who might not know, my spiritual journey (in very broad brushstrokes) has looked like this: I grew up in Wheaton, Illinois (i.e….

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The Song of Solomon: A Reading

I admit that this is a rather different kind of post. In my Wisdom Literature class, we are currently going over The Song of Solomon, a book that, let’s face it, most people don’t read. It’s this odd love poem that seems just a bit too weird and erotic for most tastes. Nevertheless, it is…

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Election 2020: A Bonus Post–The Fall Out (…and a serious warning to everyone)

Now that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, it has been interesting to watch the reactions across the board. I’ve seen a lot of expressed hopes by everyone across the board that Biden can help end the divisiveness and bring back civility to the national discourse. I’ve seen people…

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Election 2020 (Part 3): An Appeal to Christians on Both Sides of the Political Aisle–Political Idolatry and the Beast (and what Christians need to do to resist it)

Here we are, a day before the 2020 presidential election, and I want to give a few final thoughts to wrap up my two previous posts. Call it a “Christian response to our politics,” if you will. In particular, this post really is addressed to Christians more than anyone else. I want to first say…

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Election 2020 (Part 2): My Evaluation of the Democrats and Media Over the Past Four Years (My apologies, but I’m just being honest as to how I’ve seen things)

In my previous post, I gave a brief overview regarding how I felt about Donald Trump in 2016, how I expected him to crash and burn as president, how I assumed I would be voting for a Democrat in 2020 (as long as they acted like adults), and how I was shockingly and pleasantly surprised…

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Election 2020 (Part 1): My Assessment of Trump’s Presidency, and Why I’m Voting the Way I’m Voting (…like this will really change anyone’s mind, but hey, don’t you want to know what I think?)

As we are now just days from the 2020 Presidential Election, with all the tension and toxicity every single American has felt for the past four years, and in light of everyone’s dread of what the fallout of the election will be, I thought I’d take time on my blog to write about my perspective…

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Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Part 3)–Concluding Remarks

We now come to my final post in this short series involving my look at the book, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?, that covers a debate on that topic by New Testament scholars Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans. A Note About John’s GospelBefore I move onto both scholars’ concluding statements and…

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Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Part 2)–A Debate Between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans: Responses and Some Analysis

We now come to Part 2 of my short blog series on the book Can we Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? that is essentially the transcript of a debate between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans. As was obvious from Part 1, Ehrman’s answer to that question is a definitive “No,” based on the…

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Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (A New Series/Book Analysis of the Debate Between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans)

Just recently, a new book came out entitled, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? It is essentially the transcript from a debate between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans over the issue of the historical reliability of the Gospels concerning the life of Jesus. My only criticism of the book is that I…

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“Goodbye Jesus”–A Review/Analysis of Tim Sledge’s Book (Part 5: The Heart of the Problem…for Ex-Evangelicals and American Evangelicalism Alike)

Here in this final installment of my look at Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I want to discuss what I feel is the deeper, underlying issue, not only to what Sledge discusses in his book, but to so much that is problematic in so many Christian-Atheist debates about Christianity in general and the Bible in…

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