Month December 2020
Tom Wright recently (2020) published a new popular text entitled, Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World. Wright’s discusses seven innate longings of the human race which he sees as indicators (or ‘signposts’) pointing away from the world’s… Continue Reading →
Taking time to read the Scriptures can be challenging — our day already feels too busy, and when we finally do have a few minutes alone (perhaps rising before the break of day or well after the final pink and… Continue Reading →
Previously, we considered the first part of 1 Peter 5.13, arriving at the tentative conclusion that ‘she’ or ‘the one’ (ἡ) likely refers to the church. Let’s remind ourselves of the Greek: ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι συνεκλεκτὴ καὶ Μᾶρκος… Continue Reading →
The letter of 1 Peter concludes with a rather cryptic circumlocution: ἀσπάζεται ὑμᾶς ἡ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι συνεκλεκτὴ καὶ Μᾶρκος ὁ υἱός μου. Roughly translated: “She/the [feminine] one in Babylon greets you, and also my son Mark.” Does this verse in… Continue Reading →
Prologue Another one from the scribbles of decades past. Rest Only comfort of weary nights, Days of endless dispassioned flights, Toils and troubles so cloak my sight, Burdened, helpless to face the fight. What is rest? God promised the Israelites… Continue Reading →
Prologue I wrote a lot when I was younger — all sorts of stuff. I rather wish I had assigned a date. Anyway, it makes for interesting reading while poring through old files and folders. Recently, I found this. Some… Continue Reading →
It is perhaps best to let Irenaeus, a contemporary bishop in southern France, introduce our next guest: But Polycarp also was not only instructed by apostles, and conversed with many who had seen Christ, but was also, by apostles in… Continue Reading →