This is the second of two posts on evil in the Bible. The first post lays out a lesser-known Old Testament idea of evil. This post describes a more familiar New Testament view, where evil takes on personality. The point of these essays is to urge Christians to re-embrace the earlier Old Testament view, which …
Reflections on censorship and the banning of books.
–Sue Hargis Spigel Each day in Florida brings new wonders. Which freedom will the governor and his legislature remove from individuals and local governments? What citizen initiatives will the County Commission ignore in favor of land developers and other coffer stuffers? What rebranding of history will the Florida Board of Education foist on us? The …
Stephen King doesn’t organize a plot before he starts writing down his haunting stories. I learned this about halfway through his On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, and I was fascinated with the reasoning behind what strikes me as a risky way to write. He begins with a situation, a tantalizing moment in …
This post gives an original analysis of the Florida 2023 Social Studies Standards that have attracted so much attention and criticism.
Often lost when we think about the Bible’s creation stories is the fact that they were written to inform the reader about the present and the world around. They weren’t written to falsify scientific explanations for how the world took its current form.
Lynn White got one big thing right. The environmental mess is Christianity’s fault. We can blame religion, yes Christianity, for allowing us to plunder the land, seas, air, and animals. Our religion has fostered in us a mindset that makes an ecological crisis, notably climate change, unavoidable. And importantly, if religion is at the heart …
