“Gestalt” – a word some of us academic types use on occasion. Gestalt has to do with perception, of seeing the whole, all at once, rather than parts. Many more have surely seen the image of the woman/women that illustrates
Looking at Leviticus
Recently, I have been reading and listening carefully to the book of Leviticus. For most of us, this book does not rank high on our favorite Bible book list. It is also the subject of unnecessarily heated debates about biblical
Resurrection Realism
“So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.” You can find this statement in 2 Corinthians 4:16. It’s relevant for thinking about the meaning of
“His Winnowing Fork is in His Hand”
(I wrote this post, as you can see, two days ago. I felt like I should sit on it and let it simmer before I hit “publish.) It’s Palm Sunday afternoon, 2020. We have never seen a Holy Week like
The Twentysomething Soul #4 – Nones (Don’t Believe Everything You Read about Them)
In this last installment on my little series of reflections from Tim Clydesdale and Kathleen Garces-Foley’s book, The Twentysomething Soul, I focus on that oh so slippery demographic category, The Nones. This cohort of emerging adults has suffered a good