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THAT’S AN AWFULLY NICE SONG MARY WROTE, the Magnificat – don’t you think? Have you read that thing? “Oh, how my soul praises the Lord. How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior! For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and from now on all …

I GOT TRASH TALKED THIS WEEK. And death threatened. I guess I brought it on myself by asking a tough question in Tuesday’s blog article, Christian response to refugees. Here’s the question that got me in trouble. What’s the Christian principle at …

I’M LOOKING FOR SOMETHING I haven’t found yet. I asked my Bible study group for it on Sunday. No luck there. My question was about the six million Middle Eastern refugees, and the fact that more than half of the people in this country—Christians …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

EDUCATED GUESSES ARE ALL WE’VE GOT when it comes to figuring out what the Star of Bethlehem was. I’ve written about the theories in a few blog articles and in several of my books. But in case you haven’t read about the most popular …