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I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE JESUS talking about the ancient Middle Eastern myth of the evil eye. But the topic seems to show up in the Gospel of Matthew. If you look at many pictures from the ancient Middle East, you’ll come across pictures of eyeballs. …
TODAY, for the first time, I looked up the definition of a “troll.” I looked it up because someone posted a comment about my YouTube video What Romans said about crucifixion: “Wow, my friend, you somehow attracted a lot of trolls.” Troll: “A person …
JESUS HELD A GRUDGE. I don’t know if that’s true. But I’m afraid that’s what it felt like. I was reading the story because I needed to paraphrase it for Mark, in the Casual English Bible. It’s a story in two snippets. Snippet one The family of Jesus …
ONE OF THE ODDEST stories in the Gospel of Mark is the tale of Jesus healing a deaf man who could hardly talk—and then asking him not to tell anyone. Really, Jesus? Why do you think Jesus asks the healed gent who could suddenly speak clearly to keep …
THE BIBLE ISN’T STANDUP COMEDY. But it’s close, from time to time. Here’s a time. The disciples have already seen Jesus manage, somehow, to feed 5,000 men and others with what might compare to five Subway sandwiches. Sometime later, …
I’D LIKE YOU TO DO something for me if you can spare the time. Tell me what you think about something I’m going to put in the Casual English Bible paraphrase I’m writing. It’s for the Gospel of Mark, which I hope to release this week. What you’re …
FUNNY THING ABOUT THE GENT credited with writing the Gospel of Mark—the only Bible book about Jesus that most scholars agree didn’t get finished. The book ends with Jesus asking some women to go tell his disciples that he’s back from the dead. But …
WELL THAT WAS A SURPRISE. The Bible background video I produced on a shoestring with duct tape—“What Romans said about the crucifixion”—topped a million views over the weekend. Sad to say, I can’t predict what Bible background videos (or books) …
I’M FEELING STRONG FEELINGS. I’m sick of the hatred. And I’m whiter than a Saltine. Imagine what I’d be feeling like if I were Chocolate Steve. The sense within this land is as hateful as I’ve ever experienced it. And I …
IT’S “OORAH” in the Marines, “Hooyah” in the Navy, and “Hooah” in both the Army and the Air Force. Translating it for the church lady, it means something close to “Amen!” Translating it for folks …
STORMS SWEPT THROUGH TOWN last week. They dropped rain and hail. Then they left a trail of clouds that got my attention. I grabbed my camera, attached the zoom lens, and then set them up on a tripod in my front yard. Then I hit the record button. The …
THIS IS NOT what I intended to write today. Instead, I’m writing what I had to live yesterday. When I woke up Monday morning, my phone kept flashing a pop-up message that told me it could not connect to my email server. Something about not …
