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Wise and Sagacious Vistas: The Past and Future of a Sapiential Reading of Matthew---                            My earliest memories of serious study of the Gospel of Matthew come from my time in college at UNC.  There was this book by a Harvard Professor name Krister Stendahl about the School of St. Matthew, suggesting that…

You can see some squirrely things in this world.  But this one is right up there.  Can you hear the conversation at the local barbershop between Bubba and Ernest? “I’ll bet you a buck you can’t ride down the street on your bike with a deer on your shoulders” “I’ll be I can. Who do…

The story of Tony Alamo is bound, someday, to be made into a movie.  It’s so bizarre, so improbable, so full of incident and crime and sin that it makes some soap operas look clean!   The horrifyingly saddest part of this story is that Alamo was viewed and viewed himself as a conservative Christian minister. …

Jim Carrey has already grinched his way through a previous Christmas, and now he gets to see if he can top that by Scrooging his way through this one.  I went to see this movie in 3D and one has to say that both the motion capture technique and some of the 3D effects are…

You may well have missed this one.  It’s a small book, pocket sized, and though it says a novel on the cover, its really a novella– 177 pages even with gracious spacing. You can easily read it in a day, or on a long plane ride and its enjoyable from start to finish.  I thoroughly…

Last summer the movies went to the dogs. Fortunately for the movie industry, most Americans love dogs. There have been some dogs this fall in the theater as well, and one kind of movie most prone to be both loved by the public and panned by the critics is a disaster movie like 2012. Sure…

I was reading a withering review (no not by me) of Robert Price’s recent salvo, Jesus is Dead, published by one of the atheistic presses. This book is not merely an assault on the idea that Jesus rose from the dead, but an assault on the notion that Jesus even existed, and in the process…

(My friend Mark Fairchild, who is a professor of Bible at Huntington University invited me to come give some lectures at his school in Indiana. What follows here is the Forrester Lecture on Diversity delivered Nov. 4, 2009.Kudos to Mark and his colleagues for a good time at Huntington).BW3——- E PLURIBUS UNUM:  THE ONE AND…

Michael Jackson was many things, and when he died at 50, his demise was so sudden, and so much like the demise of Elvis, that inevitably comparisons will be made.  For sure, had it not been for the Beatles, Michael Jackson would have been the greatest thing since Elvis, and in some ways he was…

       I      Gravity To be specific An attraction Sometimes fatal   The gravity Of depravity Is seldom seen In time.   The Gravity Of an occasion Spreads solemnity Silently, surreptitiously.   Like love Gravity is invisible But undeniable As the attraction’s too obvious.   The Hebrews called it glory By which they meant heavy…
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