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WITH A BIG ELECTION around the corner, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about people who need help. I’ve also been comparing notes with my Christian friends about how best to help those needy folks. People such as: The sick who can’t afford healthcare …
HERE’S A TOUGH QUESTION, as far as Bible experts are concerned. Some Christians admit that they have no idea when life begins. But many others say they’re sure it starts at conception. And they’ll take their case to court if they …
AS WE APPROACH ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, we’re seeing a lot of Christians once again rallying around the Republicans. Some are saying pretty nasty stuff about any so-called Christians who vote Democrat. Sometimes it’s not that blatant. A …
IF MOST BIBLE SCHOLARS ARE RIGHT, don’t expect pearly gates, golden streets, and jasper walls—even though that’s what John, writer of the book of Revelation, said he saw in his vision of heaven. Some Bible experts say John was trying to describe the …
DEAR MRS. BROOCHERD: Before the school year ends I’d like to tell you how fortunate Linda [my wife] and I feel to have had you as Rebecca’s very first public school teacher. You got her formal education off to a great start. Frankly, I was worried …
IF THERE’S A GOD, why doesn’t he show himself—or at least say hello? Most Christians would love it if God paid them a visit. They’d pummel him with questions. And if God is omnipresent—as the Bible implies—why not show up? He could appear to …
IT’S SHOCKING to see pictures of friends I haven’t seen in decades. Facebook does that to me from time to time. I go to the Facebook site of someone I knew way back when. I see a young man I recognize from my youth. And he’s standing beside some old …
IN A REVOLT against Moses and Aaron, Korah led 250 worship leaders. The worship leaders were Levites, assistants to the priests. Aaron and his sons were the only priests. But Korah seemed to think Levites should get to serve as priests, too. Moses …
CULTURES ALL OVER THE WORLD tell of a Great Flood. One shows up in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Babylonian tale estimated to have been written more than 3,600 years ago. One fragment of the story, considered a copy, dates to about 2,600 years ago. Here’s …
IN A VISION about how the world as we know it will end, John of Revelation sees a global gathering of “all the rulers and their armies to a place with the Hebrew name “Armageddon” (Revelation 16:16). John, however, never gets around to …
A FEW DECADES BEFORE JESUS started healing people, a young man in Egypt died of what started as a toothache and ended as a whopping sinus infection. That’s the best guess of University of Western Ontario experts studying CT scans of the fellow’s …
VEGETABLES killed Naboth. King Ahab wanted to plant a vegetable garden outside his getaway palace in Jezreel, but Naboth owned a vineyard there. It had been in his family for generations, so he rejected Ahab’s offer to buy it or trade it for a better …
