As you likely do not know, every morning I read one very short essay in a small religiously conservative Daily Devotional magazine publish...

Lent (the word means Springtime) is one of those religious observances of the Christian Church worldwide that I did not experience in my you...

The mythological 1 message of the first Christmas has endured for over two thousand years, surviving translation from ancient into modern c...

When I was a youth, our church leaders encouraged us to memorize scripture, likely in accord with the prayer of the Psalmist: “Thy word have...

Immutability means never changing. I recently heard a minister declare during the Sunday morning preaching hour: “Our God will never change!...

The Greek word graph ē is usually translated by the English words, scripture or writing. By capitalizing the first letter of the word (Scri...

Luke reports that some early followers of Jesus were referred to as members of a sect called “the Way” ( o odos [ο οδος], Acts 9:2; 19:9, 2...

Here is an interesting question whose answer depends upon a text critical and literary critical analysis of the Bible: What is the proper ...

Readers of the Age of Reason should not assume that Paine is in step with all positions of modern critical scholarship. One way that he i...

It is surprising to me that, although my graduate education was in the critical study of the New Testament literature in its historical co...

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an English-born American. As a youth he attended an English Grammar School (Thetford) for five years (1744-49) ...