This is the second in a series of papers/essays I wrote this past fall for seminary classes.
In our New Testament Introduction class we were assigned to read A Rabbi Talks with Jesus by Rabbi Jacob Neusner, along with two pieces of inter-testamental Jewish literature, the Psalms of Solomon and Jubilees. Our assignmen was to compare [...]

As of this weekend, the Sacred Journey blog is one year old. SJ had a wonderful little private party during which he managed to completely cover himself in chocolate cake.
My thanks to those of you who for some reason read this regularly. I have been amazed by the number of people who do. To [...]

In response to my post Is God Necessary for Moral Decisions? my friend Steve listed a series of challenges to my theses. As I suspect that each of his points could begin a discussion of its own, I will post my responses as individual posts rather than in the original comment thread.
[Steve's response #1]
You [...]

We probably all know some churches that would do well to have this as their sign:

Courtesy of www.churchsigngenerator.com

This is the first of what I hope will be a small series of papers and essay answers from my first semester classes here at Westminster Seminary, PA. This first installment is a paper I wrote for Introduction to Apologetics. It is a brief response to an article entitled “Religion Is Not Needed in Moral [...]

Is that really as much an admission of patheticness as it used to be? I suspect that a rather large number of people today who are active on the net have people there whom they would call their friends.
Last Friday night, my LSW Karyn and I had our second opportunity to get together with some [...]

Captured below is photographic evidence of why I still don’t have most of my final grades back

Most of the gentlemen hoisting around that table are Westminster Seminary profs. The gentleman to the right trying to duck away from the truthful eye of the camera is Stephen Taylor, instructor for the incredibly beneficial New [...]

I’ve got several serious theological posts I’m thinking about, but they’ll have to wait until the break between semesters at the end of this month. In the meantime, your intrepid reporter has turned up a scandal worthy of CBS News with Dan Rather.
Yes, now that Christmas is over and the kiddies are back in school, [...]

After almost three years of consultation after consultation, it has finally been determined that my grandson Ethan does indeed have a mild cleft palate as the cause of his speech difficulties. Even better than the good news of finally having a confirmed diagnosis was the doctor’s confidence that this can be repaired though surgery and [...]

Check out The Sacred Sandwich … just may be funnier (and more pointed) than The Holy Observer.