In Bishop Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, the first chapter is entitled, “God as Mystery.” It is an apt title because it gets to, what I feel, is a fundamental difference in emphasis between Orthodox Christianity and the Evangelical Christianity in which I grew up. At the risk of being too over-simplistic, much of…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…