bible

  • Learning to Read

    Interpreting is something that we are doing constantly – even young cultural philistines like myself. We take in the world around us. We let our perceptions zero in on this or that. And then we decide on the significance of what we have perceived using a variety of criteria.

  • How Does God Speak Through Scripture?

    How does God speak? Not just “what does God say,” but “in what manner does God say what God says?” Does God sound like some of the preachers I’ve heard? You know those shouty, scary ones? Does God sound like my own voice? Is God only speaking in the red letters? And, besides, how could God…

  • Is Not This Thing in My Right Hand a Lie?

    I made a video last year in 2023 after reading something in the book of Isaiah that felt weirdly prescient. After all, this was a book written anywhere between six and eight centuries before Christ (depending on who you ask), yet it had passages like this one…