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[clear] I SPENT AN HOUR yesterday afternoon rocking my grandson Owen in my arms. Mommy needed a nap like you wouldn’t believe. And I needed some Owen time. Win win. Owen fussed while the two border collies in the house tried to herd me over to a ball …
YOU CAN GET IN TROUBLE using the words myth and Genesis in the same sentence. As in “The Genesis story about God creating Eve from one of Adam’s ribs is a myth, a bit like a parable. It’s making a point, not teaching a history lesson.” Many Bible …
[clear] In the beginning, God did not create. “God started to create.” That’s how some Hebrew lingo specialists say the book of Genesis should start. Creation was a process…over a week or an eon of weeks. Christians debate which. A Visual Walk …
IT FEELS LIKE A LIE when I tell people what I do. “I’m a writer.” A writer is what I used to be. A writer is what I’d rather be. But a writer is just a shrinking part of me these days. Times have changed. I’m not just a writer anymore. For the past …
I GOT A GREAT FACEBOOK MESSAGE recently. It made my day. Here’s part of it: Just wanted to say thank you for your books! I grew up in a cult-like church. We were taught that only the elders were allowed to interpret the Bible. Often the Bible was …
Jews didn’t develop a language until a few centuries after Moses. When he wrote down the laws that appear in the Bible, some scholars say he probably wrote in Egyptian since he was raised as a prince in Egypt. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 14.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A MISTAKE. I was reading a NASA article about the beginning of the universe and it suddenly started to sound like Genesis, the first book in the Bible. My jaw dropped. I was researching to write A Visual Walk Through Genesis, an …
No one took credit for writing Genesis. A Jewish book found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, written a century before Jesus, said “God had the Angel of His Presence tell Moses the story of Creation” (Jubilees 1:27). A Visual Walk Through Genesis, page 13.
MY COMPUTER LOCKED ME OUT. It happened a few weeks ago, while I was finishing up my July release, A Visual Walk Through Genesis. I was working on the index for the back of the book when suddenly the computer wouldn’t boot up one morning. It trapped …
I HAVE A FRIEND who fights for Joseph, the “coat of many colors” guy whose brothers sold him to slave traders headed to Egypt.. She insists he was good through and through. He wasn’t a tattletale whose brothers hated him for good reason. Instead, he …
When Jesus interrupted the funeral of the widow’s son in Nain, raising him from the dead, it may have been on the same day he died. In this hot part of the world where corpses start to smell of decay within hours, folks usually buried their dead the …
ABOUT THE TIME MARY GOT PREGNANT, Caesar Augustus ordered a census. He wanted to count everyone. This was the first census the Romans took after Quirinius became Syria’s governor. Folks went to their hometown to register. Joseph did, too. He left the …
