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UNCLE HENRY DIED at 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time yesterday. He was my mom’s little brother. He was diagnosed this winter with glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumor that surgeons tried to remove a few weeks ago. Since then, an MRI showed that it spread …
THERE’S AN OLD EGYPTIAN STORY about a married cougar of a woman trying to seduce a young man. Some students of the Bible have wondered out loud if that’s where the Genesis writer got his idea for the similar story of Joseph and the wife of Potiphar, …
“There was a wise man who was called Jesus…Pilate condemned him to be crucified…His disciples…reported that he appeared to them three days after his crucifixion, and that he was alive.” —Josephus (about AD 37-100) …
THE BIBLE isn’t the only book that talks about how horrifying crucifixion was. Roman eyewitnesses wrote about what they saw “He was whipped until his bones showed.” —Josephus (AD 37-100), Wars of the Jews, 6.5.3 “Each criminal who goes to execution …
JESUS ARRIVES IN JERUSALEM on what will become known as Palm Sunday. The city is crowded with Jewish pilgrims. They’ve come to celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover. Many welcome Jesus as the Messiah, paving his path with palm branches and …
I WROTE THIS script on the first Palm Sunday after my Dad died following his 27-year battle with cancer. The story is true…not just based on the truth. Every fact is as I’ve reported it. I still can’t read this without crying. Cast: …
Some Christians have trouble believing in a fiery hell. They say they can’t imagine Jesus lighting the eternal flame, forever barbecuing the people he died to save. They ask if instead of reading literally the Bible descriptions of hell, they should …
REMEMBER THE ODDBALL STORY of the widow Tamar pretending to be a prostitute so she could have sex with her father-in-law, Judah, one of Jacob’s 12 sons? I learned something new about that story this week. I learned why Tamar may have targeted him …
IF YOU’VE SEEN ANY of my illustrated books about the Bible, you’ll probably see some maps in there that you’ll not see in anyone else’s books. At least you shouldn’t see them there. I’ve had some of my photos stolen and published in competing books. …
THERE’S A BASKETBALL TEAM I was rooting for in the NCAA March Madness tournament of champions (past tense; they lost). So I’ve had games on the mind. Bible folks didn’t play basketball. The Canadian hadn’t invented it yet: Dr. James Naismith, a Phys. …
Philistines stole Israel’s most sacred object, the Ark of the Covenant, which held the Ten Commandments. Then sent it on tour as a war trophy. “A plague of tumors” broke out everywhere it went. Philistines sent it back to the Jews, with an offering: …
I’VE GOT WINDOWS ON MY MIND. That’s because builder’s grade windows are just a slight upgrade from wax paper in a cardboard frame. They don’t last. Builder’s grade for King Solomon featured the cedars of Lebanon floated down the Mediterranean Sea and …
