Category Archives: Religion

Song of Songs, Chapter Five

Once again, take warning all who read this post. The language that follows is somewhat explicit. If discussions of sex offend you, then you might want to skip this blog post. Of course, you might also want to make a … Continue reading

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Song of Songs, Chapter Four

Once again, take warning all who read this post. The language that follows is somewhat explicit. If discussions of sex offend you, then you might want to skip this blog post. Of course, you might also want to make a … Continue reading

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Song of Songs, Chapter Three

Once again, take warning all who read this post. The language that follows is somewhat explicit. If discussions of sex offend you, then you might want to skip this blog post. Of course, you might also want to make a … Continue reading

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Song of Songs, Chapter Two

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Song of Songs, Chapter One

Over the next seven days, my plan (we’ll see how it works out) is to give a commentary on the biblical text called the “Song of Songs,” or sometimes, the “Song of Solomon.” I’ll start this post with a brief … Continue reading

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Misunderstandings

A commonly held opinion expressed on the internet goes more or less as follows: “The bible is a poorly translated transcription of poorly translated oral history and folk legends told by stone age goat herders plagiarized from the religious texts … Continue reading

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Of Numbers and Genealogies

It can be disturbing for people to discover that the Bible, though the Word of God, is also a human document, written by human beings and subject to all the issues that afflict any human created material. Over the years, … Continue reading

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Battling Through It

Thankfully life has a certain amount of inertia. That is, sometimes you wonder how you keep going, and the answer is that it would be considerably more difficult to stop. In general, what real choice do we have? You live … Continue reading

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Miserable and Hard?

Some people say, and some people think, “It’s hard to be a Christian.” But I don’t think they are corrrect. Instead, I think the Christian life is not hard at all; it is remarkably easy. Unless we decide to make … Continue reading

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Communicating

If communication is going to work, the one speaking, and the listener must have something in common. That is, if I talk to you, it helps if we both communicate with the same language. That is a start, but not … Continue reading

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