In two recent articles in Forbes Magazine, Mr. Jerry Bowyer has taken Pope Francis to task not for his economics as such but for supporting his “lefty” economics (Bowyer’s word not mine) with bad ...

In my previous two installments on this site I have examined what we can ascertain about the “wise men” or Magi, and what astronomy tells us about conjunctions (planetary alignments, as viewed from ...

Most of us follow a pretty empirical approach to life – if something works, it works, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. We take our immediate environment at face value and most of us follow a common ...

Pastor and artist Joseph Novak talks text and symbol. For millennia, biblical literature has shaped imagination and culture. "The Minimum Bible," a project from pastor and artist Joseph Novak ...

Operation Pillar of Defense is making headlines around the world, with media outlets choosing to highlight different aspects of the conflict. While some papers predictably choose to focus on the ...

SOME IMPLICATIONS OF A SOUND SCIENTIFIC APPROACH: 1. This approach offers a tremendous challenge to the study of the Bible itself. If the Bible is what it claims to be, and what Jesus and his apostles ...

James Barr, Semitist, biblical scholar, theologian and minister of the church: born Edinburgh 20 March 1924; ordained 1951 minister of the Church of Scotland; Professor of New Testament Literature and ...