Happy cartoons of arks and rainbows. Fuzzy-faced animals marching two-by-two across the walls of a baby’s room. Most of us read the account of Noah as a cute children’s story. Some people want to focus on the story’s historicity – how the large the ark was, where it landed, or its impact on geology. But [...]

In Walter Ong’s classic book Orality and Literacy, he shares a fascinating theory about why our modern Western culture thinks so differently than the way the Bible does. Eastern thinking, like what you find in the Old Testament, is very concrete and image-oriented, and it uses stories and parables to explain rather than abstract logic. [...]