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IT WAS THE LAST LEG of Jesus’ trip to the Cross. In an all-day trip, he headed 20 miles (33 km) uphill—a winding climb about three quarters of a mile up from Jericho, 846 feet below sea level (248 m) in the Jordan River Valley, to Jerusalem, …
SOMETIMES I’D LIKE TO SMACK A LIAR, to shut them the dickens up. They’re usually on TV, though, so it would be counterproductive. I’ve chased the truth for all of my career. First as a newspaper journalist. Then as a writer of Christian …
MY ONLY GRANDSON threw up in the palm of my hand yesterday. I was holding him at the time. He’s 11 months old and sick with a stomach bug, it seems. His upchuck didn’t actually target my hand. Instead, my hand intercepted his upchuck. …
WITH ALL THE “US” AND “THEM” going on around the world these days, there are clues in the Bible about how to handle that problem. The problem of “Us” and “Them” has been around for a long time. Peter …
HALF THE COUNTRY IS HAPPY they got the president they wanted. They should rejoice and give thanks, if not repent…as the other half may think they should do. The disappointed half has reason to rejoice, as well. They should be happy that as far …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
