from the burial ground
at old Copp’s Hill
two clay-daubed ministers rise
floating from their earthen mound
flitting through the red-bricked ville
fleetin...
You descended into hell.
You plunged, razed it with your eyes –
This song is in praise of you.
You descended into hell
in a boat
with the outstretche...
Yesterday, free copies of a new edition of Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species were distributed at the entrances to Harvard Yard on Massachusetts...
In this series, I attempt to assess Second-Temple-era Jewish messianic expectation. Start at Part I or see all parts in the series.
Perhaps the most famil...
When we’re trying to decide how to live our lives, our starting point really does matter. During one of my sections this week, we had a conversation about t...
For my first post, see here.
The really surprising thing about divine election in the Bible is that it is consistently spoken of as if it were practical....
Christianity differs from non-religious philosophies not only in what it says about God, but also in what it says about mankind. According to (most) Christian...
Few biblical doctrines have as contentious and biting a history within the church as predestination. Even among communities of believers who are passionate...
The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis, were a series of letters purportedly written from a senior devil to his nephew, a tempter working on a human “patient”. Here...
People have all sorts of objections to Christianity and to the Bible, ranging from the very reasonable to the not-so-reasonable. Some are philosophical, some ...
