Rediscovering the Bible’s Perspective
We modern Christians struggle more to understand our Bibles than many people throughout history.
Articles
Standing Stones and Christmas Trees
Sometimes God uses traditions from pagan origins to his glory.
A Precious Goblet
A rabbinic parable explains how God balances mercy with justice.
The Flood: From Baby’s Room to Philosopher’s Den
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 [...]
Hebraic Thinking is that of an Oral Culture
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. [...]
Learning to Think in Three Dimensions
What our eyesight can teach us about having a biblical perspective.
Ruth’s Family Soap Opera
Back when I was in school, my friends and I were huge fans of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Each Monday’s lunch break would revolve around the previous Sunday night’s episode. At first we focused on the science fiction, how Jean-Luke Picard dealt with the strange planetary life-form that week. But over time we became [...]