The Musings of a Cart Pusher

Nathaniel likes to wake up while it is still dark.  While I held him yesterday morning his eyes were wide open, but they were moist, swoll...

First-century Judaism had a thorough-going hierarchy of spirits, angels, and demons.  Some Jews would wear amulets around their necks in or...

Daniel Wallace gives  a patient, thorough, and tactful review  of a not so tactful rant by Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald.  Well worth th...

In a New York Times opinion article Professor David P. Barash, an evolutionary biologist, sketches “the talk” he has to give to his coll...

How do you combine a beautiful ancient narrative in a way that markets itself well to American entertainment and American sensibilities? ...

I go down to a local dӧner stand to get some take-out.   The cook asks me if I’d like to stay and have some chai.   I say, “ Sorry...   nex...

By George MacDonald (1824-1905 ): I said: “Let me walk in the field;”              God said: “Nay, walk in the town;” I said: “Ther...