Bringing Christianity into the Mainstream The Judeo-Christian worldview is the foundation upon which western civilization has been built....

“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life…True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse” (19). We have all heard the old adage:...

“Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.” ~Sigmund Freud PROLOGUE — “The Bookend” — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Peering over her...

“Though man loved his fellow [man], yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.” ~...

Prologue A writer’s life is a lonely one — so much time is spent in solitude — apart from the outside world. Hours are consumed by days,...

“Okay, Professor! We’re coming down!” I heard a student shout from the second floor window, just above me, as I was entering the Hamilton...

The Gospel of Mark shows us that secrecy and fear are inextricably linked. After all, it was under the cloak of darkness, that the...

[*SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't read The Old Man and the Sea, and do not wish to have the ending revealed, please do not continue.] The...

Were his teeth missing or were they just stained? If it was the latter, they were the darkest brown imaginable. It was also difficult to...

I am up, but I am not yet awake. The sun has yet to rise; the night still lurks in the shadows. If it weren’t for the bird chirping in...

[*Article also appears on www.thegodofabraham.com] Part I: A Literary Enigma Leading biblical scholar Mark Goodacre describes the...

Embarrassing Family Members In the Gospel of Matthew we read: While [Jesus] was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his...

Time is an interesting concept. How we understand time, shapes our existence in more ways than we often care to acknowledge. If I were to...

If I asked you: who invented the airplane? You would likely say the Wright Brothers. If I asked you: who invented the telephone? You...

After man sinned against God in the Garden of Eden, God punished man. God said to Adam, “Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you...

And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country for a...

"Then he said to them, 'These are my words which I have spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the...

What is a mystic? And what does mysticism have to do with the Song of Songs? According to Bernard McGinn, the preeminent scholar of...

When you read the title of this post, you might think: Wow, this guy is against tipping, what a cheapskate. You are right, I am against...

"And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors" (Matthew 6:12). The 1.5 trillion dollar student loan crisis is...