" 'If you abandon Israel, God will never forgive you...it is God's will that Israel, the biblical home of the people of Israel, continue for ever and ever.' So...
(Update: My friend CDK has reminded me that C.S. Lewis wrote an essay some time ago that discusses many of the points I seek to address here.)
A couple years a...
In this series, I attempt to assess Second-Temple-era Jewish messianic expectation. Start at Part I or see all parts in the series.
Elsewhere in scripture, ...
Adultery is a great evil. This is an inescapable conclusion. And it is not a new conclusion to me—every reading of the Ten Commandments, every discussion of mar...
In a new series of posts here at the Fish Tank, I want to explore a biblical theme that has long fascinated me: the theological relationship between ethnic Isra...
Imperfection everywhere.
God's creation is very good - but not perfect. Our bodies age and rot; our homes and belongings perish. Moth and rust destroy; t...
It was Nietzsche who said it first, but it’s a common thought—Christianity is nihilistic. People may not express themselves in so many words, but who hasn’t hea...
My time and passion have been utterly consumed of late with beginning of the year ministry stuff here at Harvard, but I hope to start up a fresh series or two ...
In this series, I attempt to assess Second-Temple-era Jewish messianic expectation. Start at Part I or see all parts in the series.
Anointing itself is a conc...
Eight years ago today, nineteen men perpetrated the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. The 9/11 attacks scarred our collective psyche permanently; ...
