Sarah and Her Doppelgangers
She was a complex character. She gave her husband permission to get with her maid, but turned and blamed him for the consequence![1]Genesis 16:4-5 She
She was a complex character. She gave her husband permission to get with her maid, but turned and blamed him for the consequence![1]Genesis 16:4-5 She
Amy Biehl had been on a Fulbright scholarship working on projects to facilitate democracy and social justice in South Africa. A day before she was
Oskar Schindler was a faithful hedonist. This paradox was right up the biblical alley. He was a man to whom the Jewish imagination could relate;
“He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” –
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.[1]Proverbs 21:16 In the first instalment on understanding,
Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.[1]Psalm 4:7 Asaph unleashed upon the making of scripture, a combined arsenal
In Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Thebes is overcome by a plague. The oracle reveals that a murder and an incestuous relationship are the causes of the
“If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good.
Yahweh was on a mission. He set out to upend man’s age-old approach to knowing and relating to Him. Then, and even now, gods and
A Divine Prop There was the legend of the stick that turned into a snake, a bosom that made hands leprous and a mantle that
The Shaken Leaf As the children of Israel journeyed from Egypt to Canaan, they overcame large armies and defied nature. They were vectors of the
The Blind God Going by the first words that Goliath spoke to David, you knew it wouldn’t take a ‘David’ to knock Goliath out. Anyone
“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody,” said Benjamin Franklin. Wrong, says the Bible, and so begins a story that is
“For it is better to marry than to burn,” [1]1 Corinthians 7:9 Apostle Paul wrote in response to questions the Corinthian church posed to him.
John Claypool draws on a medieval fable to illustrate, amongst other things, how circumstances often subvert our sense of self. In ‘The Stories Jesus Still
They came from all Israel. Scripture called them “mighty men of valour”. A few thousands from here, several thousands from there. Each tribe, eager to
The Prophet Jonah is every man of the covenant faith. All he desires is to save God from God. God suffers from an irrepressible urge
“Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.” William Blake (1757 –1827) We are advised that the fear
God does not play dice with the universe, Albert Einstein said. He obviously didn’t read the book of Job. In that book we read that