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What to Make of This Weird Bible Passage?: Ex. 4:24-26 (part 2)

April 28, 2024

In case you missed it, last week we looked at what the ESV Study Bible and the Baker Illustrated Study Bible (CSB) have to say about God’s seemingly out-of-the-blue attempt on the life of Moses(?) and Zipporah’s appeasement of God by circumcising their firstborn son. As promised, this week we continue the investigation by looking […]

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What to Make of This Weird Bible Passage?: Ex. 4:24-26 (part 1)

April 21, 2024

It is time for the third entry (each in two parts) in this series, which looks at particularly baffling passages from the Old Testament that are often glossed over in study Bibles and Bible commentaries. The first entry was focused on Gen. 6:1-4 (“sons of God” and the Nephilim), and the second examined Gen. 9:18-29 […]

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Gov. Newsom Fights Anti-Nuke Activists

April 14, 2024

“[I]f you have an existing nuke, keep it open if you can. I think most people are agnostic on new nuclear, hoping that the next generation of reactors might pan out but fearing that they’ll be too expensive.” — Bill McKibben, author, activist, founder of 350.org If this topic sounds vaguely familiar, it might be […]

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Why Scientists Disagree About Climate Change

April 7, 2024

“[T]he NIPCC’s regional approach to analyzing extreme events and historical and paleo records of temperature, rainfall, streamflow, glaciers, sea ice, and sea-level rise is commendable and frankly more informative than the global analyses provided by the IPCC.” — Dr. Judith Curry, then-professor and chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech […]

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What You Might Not Know About Easter

March 31, 2024

Due to a mild case of procrastination, exacerbated by multiple distractions of varying importance, I almost didn’t get a blogpost prepared for this week. First, I wasn’t sure whether or not I wanted to do something Easter-related this year. I did have a potential source article to draw from regarding pagan origins. But, once I […]

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Biden Administration = Big Fail!

March 24, 2024

“That’s not the resume of a ‘uniter in chief.’” — Jarrett Stepman, columnist for The Daily Signal and author of The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past What do you consider to be the biggest failures of the Biden administration (or, as some prefer, “Biden regime”), so far? Earlier this month, in […]

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What to Make of This Weird Bible Passage?: Gen. 9:18-29 (part 2)

March 17, 2024

Last week, we looked at what the ESV Study Bible and the Baker Illustrated Study Bible (CSB) study notes said about the incident involving Noah’s drunkenness and nakedness, Ham’s transgression regarding it, and the resultant curse against Canaan. This week, we continue the investigation by looking at the NIV Faithlife Illustrated Study Bible and the […]

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What to Make of This Weird Bible Passage?: Gen. 9:18-29 (part 1)

March 10, 2024

If you read my posts from 2/4/2024 & 2/11/2024, you can guess what I’m going to do this week and next. I have chosen a particularly baffling passage from the Old Testament which many commentators gloss over, and I will cite what four of the top study Bibles have to say about it. This time, […]

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The Impact of the Chicxulub Asteroid

March 3, 2024

This is the last citation from Hugh Ross’s Improbable Planet, I promise. In this excerpt, Ross discusses the impact (in both senses of the term) of the Chicxulub asteroid, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula and caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction. In short, it was much worse than originally thought. — — — The decisive blow that […]

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A Conspiracy by Any Other Name

February 25, 2024

Some conspiracies are true. We hear a lot about “conspiracy theories” and the “nuts” that espouse them. In many cases, the theories are indeed unbalanced and not supported by evidence and/or rational thinking. But, conspiracies happen all the time, especially in the halls of power. The etymology of the word “conspire” means to “breathe together”. […]

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