I've been thinking about Christian hell a great deal recently, and it doesn't sit right with me. Don't get me wrong – I don't begrudge God's desire to punish evil, but the way Christians have presented it to me is almost cartoonish. "God's plan is to vindicate the righteous and condemn evil," they say. But, of course, there are no righteous: "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," says Paul. But there's good news, of course: "in him
Read moreIsaiah 7 is the story of a failed king, the threat of a bloody conquest, and a powerful prophecy from one of Judah's greatest prophets. The prophecy may have included a virgin birth, and I don't mean Jesus.
Read moreWe can actually date Jesus's crucifixion by the darkening of the sky.
Read moreThere's teaching Jewish law and tradition, and then there's crawling so far up your own ass that you can no longer see the sunlight, and Jewish rabbis sometimes devolved into the latter.
Read moreA basic guide to celebrating Passover.
Read moreIdo is a young boy living with severe autism. He can’t talk, and he has trouble getting his body to obey his mind. Therefore, he couldn’t communicate until the age of 12. Since then, he’s learned to communicate by tapping on an iPad. He’s kept a journal, and has published that journal as this book.
Read moreChristian doctrine often departs from the Bible in big and small ways. This is one of the small ways. I was recently surprised to discover that Satan's name is not Lucifer, and that this idea stemmed from a bad reading of a single Biblical verse.
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