When we come to any ancient text, including the Bible, we're coming as tourists in someone else's culture. So it behooves us to be good guests and learn a little bit about our hosts before we go gallivanting off.

We still have never celebrated Jubilee. Not once.

Picture a car crash. A bad one. That’s where it starts: in the smoking wreckage of your life.

This passage is not primarily a cosmic drama about Satan. It’s a reality check about human leaders who believe their own hype.

While the term "deconstruction" has gained popularity in recent years, the phenomenon itself is far from new.

What does it mean to deconstruct your faith? And is deconstruction even the right term for this process? [[NOTE: As the name implies,...