I wrote this essay, “Are Our Daily Habits Productive?” for the July 26, 2013, CGG Weekly. The economic woes the world has experienced recently have exacerbated the perceived—and often real—gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Earlier this century, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement focused on the super-rich, the top …
This essay was first published in CGG Weekly on May 5, 2006. The last few issues of Biblical Archeology Review (BAR) have reminded me why I canceled my subscription in frustration several years ago. Whether it is an article on who “the disciple whom Jesus loved” was or one about the possibility of …
I wrote this for the CGG Weekly on April 21, 2006. A recent sensation in the area of New Testament studies is the “presentation to the world” of the supposed “Gospel of Judas.” National Geographic, an organization renowned for its progressive views on social, environmental, historical, and even religious subjects, gave …
This essay was published in the CGG Weekly on my fortieth birthday, February 10, in 2006. If you will, please indulge me, as I am about to give some advice. Today, I begin my fifth decade, and since this opportunity presents itself so rarely, I want to take advantage of …
This CGG Weekly essay, written in the style of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, was published on December 5, 2003. Dear Bollix, Just a short note to congratulate you on the wonderful job you are doing overseeing the American religious landscape. When I appointed you to the position of Religious Confounder …
This piece was published as a WorldWatch article in Forerunner on June 16, 2021. For many decades, the United States and Britain have enjoyed what has been called the Special Relationship. While the two countries have quarreled in the past, particularly over the matter of independence, they settled into a …
This essay was published in the CGG Weekly on January 11, 2002. I have a pet peeve: I hate it when people flatly discount the Bible. I should be used to it by now, but it still angers me when I read of supposedly educated people giving the Bible absolutely …
This essay appeared in the CGG Weekly the day after 9/11, September 12, 2001. If for no other reason, it is interesting to consider from historical and spiritual viewpoints. The United States of America suffered a savage blow yesterday, September 11, 2001, by an as-yet unknown terrorist group. Two very …
