We have had a lot of good and vigorous discussion in the past two weeks on this blog, and I am happy about vigor and passion and intelligent discussion, but several points need to be borne in mind: 1) No anonymous posts please. If you don’t have the courage of your own convictions, then don’t…

“Bitterness is a poison you drink which does your enemies no harm, and does you no good.”– Anonymous aphorism It’s easy to become bitter about some things. Things go wrong, life is not fair, someone deceives you, you don’t get the job you want. Its especially easy to become this way as untoward things pile…

You can tell things are coming unraveled when every Biblical archaeologist, save possibly one, interviewed either in the Discovery Channel special or in the hour long debate thereafter repudiates or is unpersuaded by the findings of the show. Both William Dever and Jonathan Reed were not merely dubious about the findings of the show. Reed…

What would you do if you knew who a serial killer was, but the circumstantial evidence, however strong, was not enough to bring that person to justice? What if you were dealing with a case that had gone cold some time ago, with police exhausting all their leads and options? What if only you were…

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