Egypt-Israel-Turkey-2022     There’s still time to sign up for the tour which begins May 17th in Istanbul.  See the link above for info.   BW3 Read more

Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler  series keeps rolling along, and in opinion this is the best one so far.  The focus continues to be on the dynamic duo of brother and sister, the latter being Dr. Cat Deerborn, and their extended family.  This novel focuses on the burgeoning drug problem in England, and how well organized drug rings have become, even to the point of the sickening practice of recruiting and entrapping mere children nine years old and  up to do... Read more

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We are now nine novels into the spinoff series from the very popular Falco series, only in these novels the detective in question is the adopted daughter of Falco and Helena Justina, found as a street child in Britain, Flavia Albia.  The series started out a little too stridently with Flavia sounding like a mad-at-the-world modern feminist, but predictably, Lindsey Davis, who is a great writer found her groove, and the series has been percolating along quite nicely ever since. ... Read more

Jazz is many things and takes many forms, and I’ve spent a lot of time in the last 40 years listening to every imaginable form of jazz— Big Band Jazz, traditional New Orleans jazz, classic trio jazz, jazz fusion, avant garde jazz and a host of other forms this sort of music takes. One of the reasons to do this is precisely because it is genuinely American music almost the only major form of music essentially created in our culture,... Read more

Here below is what Wiki has to say about the celebration of Epiphany. I will simply point out that in all such traditions it is recognized that the magi showed up in Bethlehem considerably later than the time of the birth or the visit of the shepherds. Indeed, the Matthean account intimates it could even be a year or so later, since Herod plans to slaughter all children 2 years and under.  Traditionally,  the first Sunday in January is Epiphany... Read more

Here’s a shot of us at the Kentucky Horse Park where they had an amazing Christmas lights display.   Read more

The Christology of Mark’s Gospel has been a flashpoint for scholarly debate for a very long time indeed, not least because it is in all likelihood the earliest of the canonical Gospels.  It has especially been fodder for those who subscribe to the notion of some sort of  dramatic evolution of Christological thinking beginning with low Christology (Jesus the divinely empowered prophet or sage, but nonetheless purely human) to high Christology (Jesus as both God and human being),  with Mark... Read more

  Obviously, there are many movies made about war that are graphic, that make clear that war should not be glorified, especially by Christians, and that war, while in some cases seems to be a necessary evil to prevent something worse, is never a good thing.  Never, not least because lots of innocent lives (which should never be called collateral damage) will be lost.  In my own lifetime, there has not been a single war the U.S. has been involved... Read more

Here is a fine article courtesy of our friends at the NY Times.  See what you think. BW3   Why Jesus Never Stopped Asking Questions By Peter Wehner Mr. Wehner, who served in various roles in the three Republican administrations before the Trump administration, is a contributing Opinion writer. He attends McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Va. Malcolm Muggeridge, the renowned 20th-century social critic and British journalist, was an unlikely convert to Christianity. For most of his life, he was an... Read more