Some people have rejected Christmas and Easter because of their origins. But the examples of the standing stone and bronze serpent shed light on whether a practice is “pagan” in God’s eyes.
How Could She Miss the Pool of Siloam?
The famous pool lay undiscovered because of the properties of living water.
A Precious Goblet
A rabbinic parable explains how God balances mercy with justice.
The Flood: From Baby’s Room to Philosopher’s Den
Many of us miss the fact the flood story gives a profound answer to one of the most difficult questions posed by philosophers today: how a good God can tolerate human evil in the world.
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. […]
Not Yours to Complete
How Jewish ethics deals with smoking can teach us about following Christ.
Can we call Jesus “Rabbi”?
Is it appropriate to call Jesus “rabbi”? Or did he reject the title? A look at how the word was used in the first century.
Dating Jesus’ Jewishness
How much can we really know about the Jewishness of Jesus? That’s a pretty fundamental question, since the goal of this website is to understand the Jewish background of Christianity. I’ve found some pretty important news in my recent reading, and wanted to share it here. A common approach to studying Jesus is to use […]
Learning to Think in Three Dimensions
What our eyesight can teach us about having a biblical perspective.
Reflecting on the First Advent
During the Advent season, I’m reconsidered the harsh reality that Jesus entered two thousand years ago.