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I think I’m going to take some time to share my favorite Bible passage. This is a new thing, this particular one. I’m sure I’ve read it to some extent before, and I, of course, know the story and the song. But I read it last week and it became meaningful to [...]

Exodus 21:22-24 (NIV)
22 “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for [...]

I’ve been doing research on the history of Biblical canon and how the books of our Bible have come to be our books. In particular, I’ve been interested in why Protestants removed specific books, and what criteria was originally used to choose the books. I know a bit here and there, generically, from my Bible [...]

Apparently– and I am not certain of this and cannot be bothered to look as I am severely lazy– Mark, as in the Book of Mark in the Bible, got most of his eye witness information from Peter. The rest of the gospels are written from other various sources.
What is also true is that [...]

I reject two things in my current understanding/experiences of my path in evangelical Christianity, that are seemingly contradictory. The first is that I reject the hostility toward all sciences, from biology to psychology, including philosophy and thought. The idea is that the Bible is so worthy of worship, that no other area of [...]

I was thinking today that we, as American Evangelical Christians– I talk of a very specific sub-culture we have established– tend to do ourselves a major disservice by only reading popular books in the evangelical circle. (We, as Americans, tend to rob ourselves of a lot, but that is another day.)
We need to be breaking [...]

Ah, the Bible– the book of books!
My favourite book of the Bible is Hebrews; my favourite book of the (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) Bible is Judith! Hebrews talks of the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament, the law and grace, Jesus being our High Priest.
Judith is a really exciting [...]