As I hustled through an office park on my daily morning walk, a woman arriving for work responded to my “Good morning” with, “Merry Christmas.” I waved politely and walked on. Her well-wishes reminded me that we are deep within the time of the year when such words are thrown …
A stroll through just about any cathedral in Europe, not to mention many a church just about anywhere in the world, would bring to the eye the sight of perhaps a handful or even dozens of images of God and Christ, as imagined by painters, glaziers, and sculptors down through …
This essay was first published as a CGG Weekly essay on July 22, 2016. The online free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, keeps a “List of terror incidents” by month and by year. (For instance, here is the page for 2016.) The list for July 2016, which at this writing covers only July 1-20, …
This first appeared as the “WorldWatch” column in the January-February 2016 Forerunner. Populism, a political philosophy that appeals to and claims to represent the interests and notions of the average person, has enjoyed a long history in the United States. It can be argued that populist fears fueled the American Revolution, …
“. . . Who led them through the deep, as a horse in the wilderness, that they might not stumble?” —Isaiah 63:13 The passage of the Israelites through the Red Sea was a watershed moment (pun intended) in the history of Israel, and the Bible, especially the Old Testament, frequently …
“. . . that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.” —Joshua 4:24 The Israelites’ crossing of the Jordan is overshadowed by the previous generation’s crossing of the Red Sea. The …
As much as we talk, we should all be experts on language, at least the one we grew up speaking. When we were just infants, we began absorbing the broad strokes of our native tongue, and within a few years, without any real instruction, we were speaking in full sentences …
On the other end of the link is an enlightening blog post, “Parchments,” by Mike Wittmer, giving us some idea how much it cost Paul, the church, or some patron to write and copy each of the epistles we now have in our New Testament. Doing God’s work, even then, was …
