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IT’S THE PERFECT QUESTION for the Easter season, what with the Resurrection and all. It comes from Frances Foster, who gets a free book for taking the time to send me the question. Here’s how Frances put it: Can people in heaven interact with loved …
I JUST GOT BACK from watching the movie “Noah,” with my wife. I don’t recommend it. The movie. Or watching it with my wife. She jumps too much. The movie didn’t scare me. My wife did. She’d get excited when I wouldn’t, ‘cause I’m relaxed watching …
MY NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR is an American with an African heritage and a down-to-the-ground sense of humor. I was chatting with him and his son-in-law when out of the blue he said, “The KKK is going to have a rally here. Are you going to march with them?” …
I DIDN’T EXPECT HITLER at my first-ever Jewish Passover meal, yesterday. God help me, I’m not sure if he ruined it or enriched it, in spite of the tragedy he brought: two of my fellow church members shot dead, a grandfather and his 14-year-old …
IT WAS A HATEFUL PALM SUNDAY. This is normally my blog post for the Bible Question of the Week. I’m thinking the question this week should be “Why?” While I was at my first-ever Passover meal yesterday, a Seder hosted for my Bible …
JACOB TIED UP GOD all night with a whopper of a wrestling hold…if we’re to believe some Bible experts. I can’t help but wonder if the hold Jacob used was the “step-over armlock camel clutch.” That would be cool. Remember the story? I’ve picked it for …
COSMOS WOWED ME when it came back to TV a few weeks ago…it wowed me right up until the moment I laughed out loud when the writers clearly had not intended for anyone to laugh. Cosmos is a show about science and the universe. The late Carl Sagan used …
I KNOW HOW TO IRRITATE an Old Testament prof. Ask the question Nick Almendarez did, which becomes the Bible Question of the Week. Nick, you get a free book for your trouble, though an Old Testament prof might say what you really need is a good …
I DIDN’T REALIZE IT, but the apostle Paul was a traveling man long before he logged those 10,000 miles (16,000 km) on his missionary trips. I didn’t fully get that until I started working on a map for an upcoming book (not the quick map I created …
I HAVE A NEIGHBOR with a troubled son about to turn 18. Strangest thing. The boy’s dad, who’s a wonderful neighbor, told me the judicial system gave up on his boy. The youngster was on probation for drug possession. He also had some problems with a …
WHEN GOD MADE A DEAL with Abraham—some call it a contract or a covenant— he didn’t ask Abraham to sign on the dotted line. He asked him to cut on the dotted line. And that leads to the Bible question of the week, coming from Robert Lee, who wins a …
NEXT TIME YOUR PASTOR SAYS God expects you to give 10% of your income to the church, roll your eyes if you must. But try not to be too obvious. The pastor might not know any better. That’s pretty much the take of church history profs. They know that …
