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Beyond the Sunday School Version: 6 Surprising Realities of Our Spiritual History 1. The Time-Traveler’s Dilemma In popular science fiction, there is a recurring trope: a man travels back in time to save his younger self from a gang of thugs, only to find that as the gang injures his younger self, his own limbs … Read more
1. Introduction: The Story We Think We Know Most of us have a “Sunday school” version of Genesis tucked away in our minds: a lush garden, a piece of forbidden fruit, and a talking snake. We treat it like an ancient fable, a historical “once upon a time” that explains why the world is broken. … Read more
1 Samuel 1: Samuel Is Born to Hannah and Elkanah Elkanah, a Levite, having two wives, worships yearly at Shiloh He cherishes Hannah, though barren, and provoked by Peninnah Hannah in grief prays for a child Eli first rebuking her, afterwards blesses her Hannah, having born Samuel, stays at home till he is weaned She … Read more
Why the “Days of Noah” are Trending Again 6 Mind-Bending Revelations from Genesis The Great Paradigm Shift Over the last two decades, a seismic shift has occurred within the cultural and theological landscape. Topics once sequestered in the “fringe” of eschatology—UFOs, extraterrestrial visitations, and the Nephilim—have migrated into the center of mainstream discourse. This is … Read more
The Shinar Breach: Why the Tower of Babel Was Never a Skyscraper When we envision the Tower of Babel, we tend to project our modern architectural anxieties onto the ancient past. We imagine a primitive skyscraper, a mud-brick version of the Burj Khalifa, rising high enough to offend a God who apparently has a very … Read more