Last week, the first trailer came out for Ridley Scott’s new movie, Exodus: Gods and Kings. I’ll admit, I didn’t watch it right away, but I’ll explain why in just a little bit. I finally got around to it. And here it is, so you can see it for yourself:…
Last week, I spent some time musing about the Ark of the Covenant, spinning through some theories about where the sacred box may have wound up. My money is still on it being destroyed by the Babylonians. It just makes theological sense to me that it was destroyed. It’s a…
Today’s the big day! Kynetic: On Target is now available exclusively through Amazon. Go grab a copy (or download a copy or however you put it) today! Sometimes you’re the hunter. Sometimes you’re the target… The amateur superhero Kynetic knows what she wants: her own vigilante license from the government…
I sometimes joke with the members of my congregation that I have hundreds of questions I’m going to ask God when I get to heaven. Some of them are trivial things, stuff that really doesn’t matter. But some of them have to do with some of the enduring questions that…
So last week, I wrote about what it means to pray in Jesus’ name, how that isn’t a magic formula that somehow turns God into a wish-granting genie. That’s usually what we hope for when we approach God in prayer. Yes, we may try to dress up our requests in…
So does truly successful prayer involve magic words? It may seem like that at times, doesn’t it? We bring our prayers and requests to God. We know we need help with some problem that’s bigger than us, and we know that He should be able to help us. But even…
True story time. When I was in college, I was part of the pre-seminary “club” called AEX (which stood for adelphoi en christo, or Greek for “Brothers in Christ”). We would meet for weekly Bible studies and do the occasional service projects. And occasionally, we would get asked to lead…
Shortly after I arrived at my present parish, several of the members worked on cleaning the church up. They found an older painting and showed it to me and asked if they should get rid of it. The moment I saw it, I told them to keep it. Not only…
Have you ever heard creation sing? That may sound like an odd question to ask. It sounds like I’m trying to anthropomorphize the world. You know, speak of an inanimate object like it’s a human being. Poets do that sort of thing all the time when they’re trying to be…
Wow. I had to do some digging to find this, but it feels kind of good to bring it back… Every month, a group of bloggers gets together to post reviews and thoughts on a Christian science fiction and fantasy book. I used to participate in these tours a lot…