Another Good Post about the War on Christmas

Byhenry December 3, 2009

… from Allan Bevere. This relates to my earlier post, The Real War on Christmas.

Search for the Historical Simon Peter II

Byhenry February 22, 2008

This post continues from this one and is part of my series blogging through Ben Witherington’s book What Have They Done with Jesus? This chapter continues the theme of the previous chapter. Witherington is creating profiles of the various claimed eyewitnesses in the New Testament and then using them to tell us about Jesus. With…

Christianity | Religion

Christopher Hitchens Dies

Byhenry December 16, 2011

I’m sad to report that after years of living with cancer, Christopher Hitchens has died at age 62. I have not personal encounters or recollections to report, but I must admit that, while disagreeing with him on many things, including his stand on the war in Iraq, I appreciated his gift for writing, the one…

Christianity | Creation and Evolution | Religion | Science

Review of Creation in Scripture by Herold Weiss

Byhenry March 13, 2015

Hanz Gutierrez has reviewed Creation in Scripture by Herold Weiss on the Spectrum Magazine web site. Spectrum is published by the Association of Adventist Forums. Many may not realize that Dr. Weiss is Seventh-day Adventist, though he clearly differs with the officially proclaimed church view on creation. He describes his journey in another book, Finding…

Christianity | Discipleship

The Importance and Durability of Words

Byhenry December 6, 2024

Through a Facebook comment on my post yesterday, The Importance of Things Left Out, another thought came to me connected to my other post yesterday, Psalm 119:13 – Speaking It. The comment made my push my memory for when it was that my mother made the comment on Hannah and Elkanah in 1 Samuel 1,…

Bible Study | Biblical Criticism | Biblical Inerrancy | Christianity | Religious Education

High School Bible Classes Again

Byhenry May 1, 2006

In a previous post, The Best Place to Teach the Bible, I discussed my view that home and church or other private organizations were the best way to teach the Bible. I’ve had a couple of comments to that post that I think deserve some comment, and since I don’t like to make post-length comments…

Politics

Please Vote in the Midterm Elections

Byhenry November 3, 2014

This is written to my American readers. Please go out and vote int he midterm elections tomorrow. I say this irrespective of your political views. There are a number of groups who are more likely to vote in presidential elections and then ignore the “less important” midterm and local elections. But that is not the…