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A Note to Readers:This article begins a new series exploring Matthew’s account of the crucifixion and resurrection. What started as a study of the torn veil has expanded into a larger investigation of sacred...
The framework that once carried Christianity through American life is collapsing. In the decades following World War II, churches existed within a society that largely reinforced a Christian worldview. Schools, neighborhoods, civic institutions, entertainment,...
One of the most enduring themes in Scripture is the conflict between brothers. The biblical story repeatedly returns to rivalry, jealousy, wounded honor, and the struggle over inheritance and covenant identity. Cain and Abel....
There is a pattern that runs like a deep current shaping Scripture from beginning to end. In the ancient world, a temple was never built in the absence of conflict. A temple always followed...
UPGRADE The ancient world did not divide reality into natural and supernatural categories. That distinction belongs to a later way of thinking—one shaped by modern assumptions about a closed universe governed by impersonal forces....
Each year on Yom Kippur, two goats stood before the high priest in Jerusalem—one chosen “for the Lord,” the other designated “for Azazel,” the wilderness goat figure associated in early Jewish tradition with chaos,...
The Roman Empire was built on a foundation of power, rank, and humiliation. To keep order across vast territories, Rome relied on a system that shamed the weak and exalted the powerful. Public humiliation...
Subscribe now Ancient Corinth (Greek: Korinthos) needs to be understood from its geography. I had the great pleasure of visiting this site (December 2025) and was awestruck by the surrounding landscape. The city’s geographical...
On the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, within the shadow of Rome’s power, Jesus steps into a world shaped by empire. What follows is a revelation of what empire does to humanity—and...
We are living at a time when Western civilization and the church is collapsing under its own weight. Ugliness in public life can be seen everywhere—coarse speech, impolite interactions, corrupt institutions, violence celebrated in...