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THERE ARE SUPER-WEALTHY PEOPLE who don’t cheat widows, overcharge the poor for food, and kick the down and out up and down. But not in the Bible book of Amos. In Amos, the rich are the bad guys. Not that all the rich are bad. Just all the …
I CRIED EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. I know that’s an odd thing to admit in a blog feature intended for people interested in the Bible. I could have written about what the prophet Amos said to rich people 2,700 years ago. That’s where I am in paraphrasing …
ON THE BRINK OF ELECTION DAY there’s a Bible passage I think is appropriate for people of all political persuasions. No matter how this turns out, about half the nation is going to feel like they are losing their country. We might find reason …
I COULD USE SOME VOLUNTEER HELP. For the past several years I’ve been working on an easy-reading Bible paraphrase that people who aren’t Christian can read and understand. Throughout those years, I’ve been paying all the people I …
My four-year-granddaughter got scared at church yesterday. I was standing beside her, and I saw the terror in her eyes as she grabbed tight onto her mother, who lifted her into consoling arms. We were standing in line in the church parking lot, …
I didn’t know God sings. Until today. I never heard that in seminary, sermon, or song. It surprised me. So I pulled my head up from paraphrasing the Bible book of Zephaniah long enough to tell you about it. And here I am. Angels in the Bible …
This could have been about final moments between a son and his mother. For Mom is fragile now, and 800 miles from Kansas, across the eastern plains to Ohio. Or it could have been about death. For I’m the only male left in Mom’s and Dad’s family. Dad …
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. …
