A blog about Christian matters from a 21st Century perspective, including material outside of the Bible, such as the Shroud of Turin and near-death experiences.
During a lengthy period of reading, listening to historical material about early Christianity on DVDs as well as my own thinking, I consider it seems that hardly anyone has ever clearly desc… Read More
WHY JESUS’ CRUCIFIXION SICKENS US
Each year, in Christian churches during Passion Week, the subject of Jesus’ crucifixion is described in elusive terms, but rarely in much det… Read More
In at least recent years, Messianic Jews (who also accept Yeshua—Jesus—as their Messiah) have proposed that He was not born during Christmastime, but rather earlier in the year… Read More
After reading British historian Michael Grant’s (still available) strong yet concise introductory 1977 treatise on Jesus, it oddly occurred to me that I have not written anything… Read More
One of my interests has become to look at the state of our Christian faith, not merely that of the Church, but, more broadly, its state in the larger context of Western society. Most keenly… Read More
What you would call My hands fashioned everything you see & taste that stays unconjured by your human doings, despite all of your techno-progress you only hear because I allow silence &a&hell…Read More
I am writing this in response to reading Episcopalian pastor Fleming Rutledge’s book, The Crucifixion (2015), which has received many accolades, including Christianity Today’s Bo… Read More
The Trinity, as a conceptual effort to better understand Jesus’ own use of “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” in Matthew 28:19 regarding baptism (its only appearance in the Gosp… Read More
After reading Michael Novak’s book, No One Sees God (2008) several years ago, as much as I enjoyed the book, it has been its title that has stuck most with me, the clear simplicity of… Read More
I am writing this shortly after two major hurricanes have ripped through both my adopted state of North Carolina as well as Florida and Georgia. These hurricanes have flooded or destroyed ho… Read More
Long before any religion formed and named itself, whether pagan or monotheistic, there was our Natural world. Our earliest sense of God’s divinity came once men and women recognized th… Read More
As a physician for many years, I have at times been faced with patients suffering from diseases from which they will not recover, that they are going to die, and soon. While we are taught to… Read More
I am finishing up reading a book about the Puritans, which focuses on their sense of persecution in England and coming to what will become Massachusetts in the 1620s to establish a sense of… Read More
First, about the title. Some will either feel offended or correct me for being historically wrong, since we all know that Jesus was crucified by the Romans. Although I am a Christian, this e… Read More
Several years ago, I read a book entitled No One Sees God, which strikes me as the starting place for all religious doctrines, whether Christian, Jewish or otherwise. Perhaps it was the anci… Read More
What is the place of John the Baptist in the trajectory between the Old and New Testaments? What does his work say about God’s frustration with us after His long attempts, through both… Read More
Several years ago, my wife and I left the Presbyterian church we had been attending for 12 years. While we seriously deliberated our decision for much of last year, once it was done, we felt… Read More