Verses vs. Sentences
One thing I want to teach myself to continually do when reading the Bible is to, as much as possible, ignore chapters and verses and pay far more attention to…
Bible Study
Psalm 23
A few thoughts on a beloved Psalm as I sit at a campsite. 1a The Lord is my shepherd; I have a shepherd, therefore I am a sheep. Like a…
Scriptural Allegories
Allegorizing scripture is a dangerous thing as we can use it to make scripture say basically whatever we’d like it to. There are no guardrails once you begin turning biblical…
The Why of Theology
First and foremost, a question is “why bother with theology?” and all these deep, theological wrestlings about this and that and how could it all possibly matter in our everyday…