by Kira Dewey | Aug 9, 2022 | Opinion
One of the many challenges we face when studying the Bible is understanding literature written in unfamiliar styles. With the impact that novels and book series have on today’s literary culture, studies show that poetry in particular has fallen by the wayside....
by Jim Hopkins | Apr 13, 2022 | Opinion
Strange. That’s how biblical scholar Marcus Borg characterized the letter of Jude. In Evolution of the Word, he wrote, “Jude is perhaps the strangest document in the New Testament. It is one of the shortest, about a page long, and is the most enigmatic.” One of the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 6, 2022 | Opinion
A new church year began over a month ago, but a new calendar year has just commenced. No matter how bright or dark the previous year has been, a new year brings the hope of a wide-open future. We all sense that we have a clean slate – a feeling expressed in...
by James L. Evans | Dec 22, 2021 | Opinion
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by Jim Hopkins | Sep 9, 2021 | Opinion
It is important that the biblical story of Jonah be more than the beginning of a “did that really happen?” debate. In fact, Jonah’s placement among the prophetic books of the Bible should tell us that, like the other prophetic works, the story of Jonah will cause us...
