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The Fast That Failed
God’s prophet warned them: their fast was fruitless. But “hearts like flint” doomed them to repeat their dark history. This post on the Fast of Tammuz is the eighth in a series on Divine Appointments: Insights from God’s Calendar. Nothing in the Bible is “old news”! And here we go again! I started out with […full post]
Seventy-Five Years Ago Today: After “Infamy,” Forgiveness Wins!
This is just a quick post to let you know about my first-ever guest blog at the Christian History Institute! It’s in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid, a daring air/sea attack that changed the course of WWII. There’s a wonderful behind-the-scenes story about how captured airmen found a new source of […full post]
Does the God of the Bible Favor a Gender?
I’ve been putting off writing this post as long as I can get away with. 🙂 It’s the third in my series comparing the Bible’s teaching on gender with the Quran. This is the one where I’m supposed to speak to some of the tough passages in the Bible related to gender equality. I always […full post]
Does the Bible Demean Women?
This a follow-on to my last post which featured Ten Things the Quran Actually Says Out Loud about women. A friend whose opinion I respect challenged me to compare my rundown of Quranic statements with the view of women reflected in the Bible. Clearly, entire books have been written on this subject so anything I […full post]
Islam’s Hijab: A Liberating Statement for Women?
Let me be perfectly clear: I don’t hate or fear individual Muslims. I feel profound compassion for Muslim refugees around the world. I pray for them and I donate to organizations that aid them. And I don’t believe every follower of Islam is a terrorist. Further, I don’t have any issue with a Muslim woman […full post]