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FIRST OF ALL, I MISSPELLED THE NAME OF THE RESCUE DOG. News reporters—I was educated and experienced as one—are supposed to get the names right. I spelled her name “Maisie.” But my wife wanted “Maisy,” as in Daisy. We were …
I SAVED A LIFE TODAY. A dog’s life. It was inconvenient. But she’s now our born-again dog. Four-year-old Maisie (MAY-zee) should have died first thing this morning. My wife and I found out about it late last night. Our daughter told us that one …
Did God send us a message? That’s what I wanted to talk about…God’s message through the prophets. (But I’ll shortly get interrupted by pirates using our Casual English Bible maps on a porn site. Notice will come at an ironic …
I JUST FINISHED MAPPING Jonah’s story for the new paraphrase of Jonah in the Casual English Bible. It’s an interesting story that many Christians read as history, especially since Jonah shows up elsewhere in the Bible. But some Christians …
THERE’S A BIBLE SONG FOR THE NATION, and for other democracies threatened by wannabe kings, autocrats, and souls soaked in hatred. The poem, which reads like song lyrics, comes from a prophet most Christians, I suspect, never knew existed: Habakkuk. …
Obadiah is the shortest book in the Bible because it doesn’t take long to warn people that God is going to exterminate their nation—kill it so dead that it never comes back. It takes only one chapter, about as long as Abraham Lincoln’s famously …
THE TITLE IS THE STORY. I’m deep into my paraphrase of the Bible. The New Testament is written. This morning I did the math for my agent. He wanted to know how far I had gotten into the marathon mission of paraphrasing, mapping, and footnoting …
YESTERDAY I FINISHED CREATING 50 BIBLE MAPS FOR ISAIAH. And I wrapped up my first pass at the paraphrase of Isaiah. All 66 chapters. Some beautiful. Some disgusting. I don’t mean to seem disrespectful toward the prophet or the Bible, but how …
JESUS SHOWS UP 700 years before his birth, in a dramatic prophecy from the Book of Isaiah: Isaiah 53. At least that’s what most Christian scholars seem to say. They say Jesus is the mysterious Servant of God who suffers and dies for the sins of …
NINE LINES IN ISAIAH just made it onto a document I’m creating called “Favorite Bible Verses.” Here they are: “When others insult you, Don’t let it get to you. When others mistreat you, Don’t let it beat you. Those …
THIS IS A BIBLE MAP EXPERIMENT that will cost me. In the ballpark of $100. I’m going to give away a Bible map mounted on canvas to someone selected by one of my grandchildren who can’t read, but who can circle a random name with a crayon. …
I USED TO LOSE TIME trying to find one of the 500 Bible maps I created for the Casual English Bible. I had to pearl dive into different Bible books where I thought I might have used it. Now I can find a map within a few seconds, with the help of a …
