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The Atheist Who Taught me About God

The Atheist Who Taught me About God

Fathers. Some are related to us through birth, some through love, and some through both. Some are good and some not so much. None are perfect. Personally, my father was related to me through birth, through love, and he was—well—human. Not perfect, but doing the best...

The Worst of the Worst

The Worst of the Worst

Have you been looking forward to this article on the six worst textual variants? Just before the corresponding talk at the GWW conference, I experienced both anticipation and dread. Asking questions about personally important topics is often uncomfortable. But, it is...

Alternative Medicine: Not Good News

Alternative Medicine: Not Good News

And now…it’s time for some SCIENCE! I do have to get back to planning book tours, but first, I am seriously disturbed by how innocent people, who are suffering in all kinds of horrific manners, are scammed by alternative medicine. Dr. David Gorsky, MD, who has been...

Lost in Translation?

Lost in Translation?

In the previous articles I made the following assertions: 1. Jesus lived. 2. Jesus died. 3. The grave was empty. and 4. Jesus rose. There is evidence, whether objective or subjective, for all of these outside the pages of the Bible. But, in the articles, I also made...

Seeing God in the Tiny Things: DNA

Seeing God in the Tiny Things: DNA

Sometimes, when I was teaching, I was tempted to break into praise. I didn’t do it. After all, that’s a sure path to losing a job that I really enjoyed. In past years, I taught cell biology at a four-year college, beginning anatomy and physiology and microbiology at a...

Cells: One of my Favorite Things

Cells: One of my Favorite Things

Just the other day, I was singing in the car with my six-year-old granddaughter. I am pretty sure you know the song: My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. Finding myself getting choked up, I told sweet Madeleine that sometimes pretty music makes me cry. “Me...