I am neither a “glass-half-empty” nor a “glass-half-full” kind of gal. I am a “the glass-can-always-be-refilled” kind of gal. That is an optimism that arises from confidence in the Source and Content, not confidence in the...
I wrote this in response to some back and forth about whether or not God exists: Some will see and not believe; others will believe though they do not see. Each has a measure in his own heart that must be met. For some, they have observed, experienced, and heard more...
There was a time I was a quibbler….I quibbled about perceived contradictions in Scripture. I quibbled over words…..and over tones and implications that I could have little way of discerning from words alone. I pecked away at the texts to try to figure...
The more time one spends in the Old Testament, the more the New Testament speaks to us more eloquently and convincingly. Jesus was continually speaking the Word of the Jewish people to them……from the Law and the Prophets. In Luke 7, Jesus has just raised a widow’s...
A Christianity Today online book review of the 2008 book, The Advent of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, edited by Michael Haykin and Kenneth Stewart introduced me to a quote from David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, published...
