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WORKING MY WAY through map-making for the Casual English Bible Gospel of Luke, I thought I’d do something odd. I took a Landsat image from NASA and I set it on top of NASA’s newest release of elevation data. Then I created a combo map …
Sodom and Gomorrah once thrived in what is now a valley flooded by the southern part of the Dead Sea, some scholars guess. They speculate that an earthquake tore open pockets of natural gas that are still common in the area. Morning fires from lamps …
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY in my church got up at 5:45 a.m. last Wednesday. He asked his mom who won the election. When she told him, he burst into tears. He’s terrified that two of his friends, who are Hispanic, will get deported. He asked why the …
The city is Babil, Iraq today. It’s most famous name is Babylon, as in “babble on.” But it’s first known name was Babel, which means “confused.” That’s where Genesis says God stopped people from building the Tower of Babel by making them …
I’M NOT SURE it’s a good idea to urge American Christians to remember who they are this week. It looks like they already forgot, some say. Christianity Today magazine has reported the results of interviews with evangelical Christians who voted in the …
SOCIOPATH is a word tossed around a lot lately, to describe presidential candidate Donald Trump. I don’t hear people explain what a sociopath is, probably because it doesn’t fit into a sound bite. For this election-day article, I thought I’d pass …
When Noah’s son Ham found him passed out drunk, Ham invited his brothers to take a look – which they refused to do. For Ham’s disrespect, Noah put a curse on his son, Canaan and his descendants, the Canaanites. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages …
CRITICS OF THE CRUCIFIXION STORY argue that the Romans would never have allowed anyone to take the body of Jesus off the cross. As one gentleman wrote me after watching my video, What Romans Said About Crucifixion, The Romans were absolutely in …
Noah and his family didn’t stay on the boat for just 40 days. It took a year for the floodwater to subside enough for them to disembark. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages 59-60. Casual English Bible
IN THIS DANGEROUS WORLD when even many Christians are too afraid to help outsiders such as war refugees, perhaps we can pause long enough to remember what the apostle Peter did. He welcomed a non-Jewish soldier into what had been a Jews-only …
MY WIFE SURPRISED ME yesterday morning with headline news she was reading on her iPhone. She said they found the remnants of an Egyptian army in the Red Sea. She started reading the news: “Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announced this morning that a …
An Iraqi flood story from hundreds of years before Moses could have written Genesis tells about another man who built a boat to survive a flood. He took his family and animals aboard. He even released a dove and raven like Noah did to scout for land. …
