In the previous couple of weeks, we looked at two figures from deep history: Sargon the Great of Akkad, and…
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Another creationist “science” textbook has fallen into my hot little hands, this time from the freebie bin at the library:…
A very good question came up regarding my short story about Bethesda, the pool in Jerusalem where one lucky sufferer…
“Bethesda” connotes a place of healing and mercy – but I could never see the logic of it, myself. In the…
Pop quiz, people. Answers at the bottom of the page. We must never do experiments to test God’s words.…
Athan was a hearty, simple lad, as hearty and simple as a bowl of lentils and a…
Her courtyard was packed with footsore, road-dusty, crow-hungry seekers after the truth, plus the Truth Himself, needily incarnate, and somewhere…
It’s Easter Sunday, the day when Christians of various (but not all) sorts celebrate the resurrection of Christ– or some…
We’ve seen it in a gazillion crèches and umpty-gazillion Christmas cards: an open-sided stable, remarkably sanitary – not a…
Titanic Archaeologist Says Noah’s Flood May Have Happened! Last week saw a flurry of headlines that were variations on that…