The End (of the year) is Here! Let’s Do a Top Ten List!
It has been a pretty good year for resurrecting orthodoxy–at least as far as my little corner of the blogosphere is concerned. This morning I looked back ...
Tag: Jonah
Twitter Conversations: The Bible, Objectivity and Subjectivity
In the course of my Twitter conversations over the weekend, the atheists I talked with were, by and large, a lot more open to discuss than were the Hamites, and...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 8): Jonah and A.I.
The final movie I want to discuss is the science-fiction film A.I. It is unique in that although it contains much of the same imagery and symbolism f...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 7): Jonah, Pinocchio, and a New Creation
One of the things I loved to do when I covered Jonah in my 9th grade Old Testament class was show my class the movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni. I wouldn’t sh...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 6): Five Biblical Themes in “The Matrix”
Given the basic plot of The Matrix, there are five essential biblical themes, one of which is a “Jonah theme,” that are essential to furthering the plot. The ot...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 5): Jonah and The Matrix (along with a few other biblical themes)
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. ...
Biblical Intertextuality and Jonah (Part 4): The White Whale, Moby Dick–Satanic or God-like?
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...
Biblical Intertextuality: Jonah in Moby Dick–Father Mapple’s Sermon (Part 2)
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...
Biblical Intertextuality: Looking for Jonah in Modern Literature and Film (Part 1)
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...
Inspiration and Inerrancy….My Two Cents
I have to be honest: I still am quite frustrated these days. It still hurts knowing that I lost my teaching job because I didn’t think the universe is 6,000 yea...