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I have a gold necklace inscribed with the words “We become what we behold.” It was a favorite phrase of a mentor whose passions lay at the intersection of faith and culture and who never failed to remind his students that what we fix our attention on will influence who we become.
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Bible study doesn’t usually lead to apostasy. But Mark 2:23-28 has a bad track record. Just ask Bart Ehrman, the New Testament scholar whose journey toward athiesm began with wrestling over Mark 2:26. Or ask the Pharisees who wrestled with Jesus in Mark 2:26. Sometimes the bigger the mind, the larger the error. Especially when…
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The internet, it seems, will argue about anything. Is the dress black and blue or white and gold? Is it “Yanny” or “Laurel”? Is cereal a soup? Friendships will be broken and new alliances forged by your answer. So when outrage broke out on social media over the suggestion that Jesus may have been held…
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If Ecclesiastes 11 wasn’t written by the wisest man who ever lived, it would be very tempting to interpret it as a series of Dad jokes – minimally clever, mildly entertaining, but ultimately nonsensical. Verse 3 even reminds me of my dad’s favorite philosophical quote: “Wherever you are . . . there you are.” One…
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Critical Race Theory Has Escaped Into the Wild It’s true. What was once an odd little plant cultivated on the fringes of academia is now a ubiquitous dandelion, popping its head out of every crack in the sidewalk. Increasingly, we see its ideas becoming entrenched in the conversations of our friends and neighbors, in the…