Genesis 3 is one of the cornerstone passages of the Bible. Bill Arnold in his commentary on Genesis reflects that Gen 3 starts a new subject and introduces a new character, the serpent or snake. The significance and identity of the snake has been a subject of much reflection through the years. The picture to the right is a carving on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris depicting the temptation. In this rendition the serpent is portrayed as a woman. In... Read more
We are doing a series now on the fantastic book called Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before. The second chp digs deeper than the first. Two points before we get going: first, this could be the most difficult of chps for iGens and, second, she could spend more time pointing to the lack of discernment and moderation by Boomers (but this could lead to another issue of iGens that she... Read more
I’ve formed a new group at Facebook and invite you to join: The Society to Return to Pre-Steroid Home Run Leaders. Read more
I’ve been asked and given permission to publish this week a series of chapters from the new A Faith and Culture Devotional: Daily Readings on Art, Science, and Life . Science: The Copernican Principle By Guillermo Gonzalez, PhD, associate professor of physics at Grove City College and a recognized expert on the astrophysical requirements for habitability. Gonzalez is cofounder of the Galactic Habitable Zone and coauthor of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery;... Read more
Ask any pastor who knows suffering and persecution first hand and he or she will tell you that what James turns to in James 1:13-15 is the rugged, pastoral, moral reality: 13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;... Read more
We are doing a series now on the fantastic book called Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled–and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Jean Twenge. We continue with her chp that sketches how cultural shifts indicate that iGens don’t care about social approval. She deals with manners and politeness. “Most of us,” Twenge (an iGener herself), “were never taught the rules of etiquette.” (This reminds me of a really nice book I read called Say... Read more
I don’t know how long it lasted, but it had to be at least twenty years. Famed Wheaton professor Merrill C. Tenney’s two books on the historical context and the contents of the New Testament were standard textbooks. I got them in college, marked them up, and referred to them for years. But so much has been learned about the historical context that those books fell by the wayside in the 80s or 90s. There have been attempts to replace... Read more
During the past few months, the crisis in journalism has reached meltdown proportions. It is now possible to contemplate a time when some major cities will no longer have a newspaper and when magazines and network-news operations will employ no more than a handful of reporters. There is, however, a striking and somewhat odd fact about this crisis. Newspapers have more readers than ever. Their content, as well as that of newsmagazines and other producers of traditional journalism, is more... Read more
I’ve been asked and given permission to publish this week a series of chapters from the new A Faith and Culture Devotional: Daily Readings on Art, Science, and Life . Philosophy : Plato: Lover of Truth, Beauty, and the Good By John Mark Reynolds, PhD, professor of philosophy, Biola University. Reynolds makes frequent “study” trips to Disneyland with his students at the Torrey Honors Institute, of which he is founder and director; www.johnmarkreynolds.com. Plato (ca 428 – 348/7 BC) was... Read more
Genesis 2 begins another view of creation; another voice; a narrowed focus. First a context: We have discussed the issues of evolution and common descent in several different posts on this blog. The mounting evidence, most importantly the molecular genetic evidence emerging from the sequencing of human and other genomes, makes the special creation of the human species increasingly difficult to defend – and we lose credibility in doing so. External resemblance, embryology, and the fossil evidence are persuasive, but... Read more
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