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  Under a leaden sky                 The geese in V formation                 Head for warmer climes                 An annual migration.   Under  a snowy blanket The earth is hard as rock Yet  it can hear the ticking Of every season’s clock.   Under a shining star The weary Magi travel Visiting two kings  And one…

THE BONDING     A cold and listless season, And full of cheerless cheer, When hopes are raised and dashed again And joy dissolves in tears.   The search for endless family The search for one true Friend Leaves questers tired, disconsolate With questions without end.   Best find some potent pleasure quick Some superficial…

If you will magnify this image a bit, you will get an aerial shot of the reconstruction of Hobbiton, complete with a bit of a sneak peak on the cast and related matters. This is indeed precisely the same farm in the middle of the northern island of New Zealand where the Shire was filmed…

See the related article about Peter Greenway’s vision.

(Disclaimer—- This conversation between my friend and OT colleague Lawson Stone and me was strictly off the cuff chatting, not refined and carefully edited discourse.  Caveat emptor) Stone: Puzzling, as I often do, over alternatives to the usual approaches to warfare and violence in the OT.  Our modern notions of non-combatants, collateral damage, etc. complicate…

Well it isn’t the cover of the Rolling Stone, but I am proud to say the newspaper in Jackson Ms. was smart enough to interview our friend and colleague Sandy Richter, who taught for us for many years (still does online, I believe) and is now full time at Wesley Biblical in Jackson.   Here the…

  Here are four shots of an ancient object I bought from an antiquities dealer in Jerusalem some years ago.  The first person to correctly identify this object wins a free copy of my recent book on Revelation.   The winner will need to send a mailing envelope big enough for a small thin book, self-addressed…
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