This essay describes a few practical guidelines for engaging religious traditions that have evolved from my personal experience and ponderin...

The ancient Greeks did not punctuate their literature by using two curved half-circle marks known from the sixteenth century as parentheses,...

What the stakes are, if it is at least partially fiction, is this: not everything written in the gospel happened, but some of it was created...

And learning to cope with the new one is an experience of several groups of people in our society. At one time they had "places" i...

A Christmas Miracle? Christmas Day, In the roadway, I found a Lincoln cent That failed to glint, because it was chocolate brown, ...

From where do thoughts come to us? Logically, one would think they arise out of the life experiences, reading, and the pondering of the thin...

A dangling preposition is also called a hanging preposition or a stranded preposition. That is, it is a word that appears to have no functio...

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

Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh (Eccl 12:12, RSV). A true statement! But it tells onl...

Academics are not necessarily scholars and scholars are not necessarily academics: Academics basically pass on a body of knowledge; schola...

John P. Meier has published five books under the general title A Marginal Jew. Rethinking the Historical Jesus (1991- 2016). Each book is...

  Charles W. Hedrick signing books and meeting the public at Barnes and Noble Springfield, Missouri on Saturday 10/22/16. Charlie is cha...

By poetry I mean, in part, an elevated language arranged in verse having a measured rhythm.  Obsolescence in this case means that poetic l...