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April 2025

April 03, 2025

Three Temptations, and Three Triumphs

Today’s blog is a slightly expanded reprint of a post I did at this site...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

Walking in Darkness: How a Psalm Shaped Horror Fiction

This is the first of two Halloween offerings from me this year. Earlier this year...

March 2023

March 30, 2023

Reading the Rabbis

It’s fair to say that most Christians are respectfully aware of the Talmud as something...

February 2023

February 23, 2023

Three Temptations, and Three Triumphs

I just published the book He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many...

February 16, 2023

Reading the Bible Across Christian Traditions

This is about a specific piece of art that powerfully illustrates the influence and reception...

December 2022

December 22, 2022

The Prayer Against the Darkness

My new book is He Will Save You from the Deadly Pestilence: The Many Lives...

December 08, 2022

My Latest Book! On “The Many Lives of Psalm 91”

I am delighted to announce the imminent publication of my new book! It is titled...

September 2021

September 17, 2021

Bitter Words and Inspired Scriptures

My present work concerns one particular psalm, namely 91, and the astonishingly large impact it...

July 2021

July 02, 2021

The Pope, the Emperor, and the Venice Myth

I sometimes fantasize about writing a book called Famous Moments in Church History That Never...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

Don’t Tread on Me!

Sometimes I post blogs because I have things to share, and on occasion, I am...

May 21, 2021

The Lives and Times of Psalm 91

My present book project is easy enough to describe. I am writing a “biography” of...

April 2021

April 19, 2021

Books Against Books

Here is a question. What passages in the Bible are deliberately intended to target or...

February 2021

February 19, 2021

Teaching Christian History: The Missing 75 Percent

Through the years, I have often taught courses on Christian history, and I have always...

February 12, 2021

To Trap Him in His Words

I recently had a sobering lesson in how we understand the New Testament. Obviously, it’s...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

Of Serpents, Lions, and Eagle’s Wings

My present research involves writing a biography of Psalm 91 as it has been read...

March 2020

March 16, 2020

The Pestilence That Walks in Darkness

In 1874, legendary Baptist leader Charles H. Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers," published a commentary on...