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In my previous post, I discussed the nature of fittingness arguments. I recommended that we think in terms of fittingness in our reasoning about...

Suppose a murder has occurred. There is a body on the floor. In walk the detectives. What do they do? They make a lot of observations and pick up a...

The title of this post may seem silly. Reading is just the activity of decoding words and sentences as your eyes move down a page. As the shoe...

In biblical studies, one key way to advance scholarship is to publish a journal article in a respected journal. Journals publish cutting edge...

Three years ago, the world celebrated the 500 years of the beginning of what is known as the Protestant Reformation. On October 31, 1517, the...

How do we pray during a global pandemic?

Part 1 of this seriesintroduced the problem of why we are addicted to judging. Part 2 analyzed the actual troubles caused by both negative and...

Part 1 of this seriesintroduced the problem of why we are addicted to judging. This second portion analyzes the actual troubles caused by both...

I suppose that some judgments in some exceptional cases are more helpful than hurtful. Most people recognize that negative judgments are damaging,...

Here’s a thought experiment. Suppose that you possessed a magic ball from which dangled a tiny magic thread. Furthermore, suppose that when you...

How can you identify that you have a problem with pride? Following are 14 diagnostic questions that I recently adapted from a set of “rules”...

One of the topics I love to teach to my students is the geography of Israel. I have been to Israel many times and lived there for extended periods...