March 28, 2024

Without a doubt, hard rock has fallen on hard times, and you can in fact see the evidence in Hard Rock Cafes, and the Hard Rock Hotel in New York which was right across from my hotel in New York earlier this month. Just a tour of the memorabilia in this hotel tells some of the story.  For example, here is Bob Dylan’s original and first guitar when he was playing in the folk clubs in NY in the 60s. ... Read more

March 27, 2024

“When human beings give their heartfelt allegiance to and worship that which is not God, they progressively cease to reflect the image of God. One of the primary laws of human life is that you become like what you worship; what’s more, you reflect what you worship not only back to the object itself but also outward to the world around. Those who worship money increasingly define themselves in terms of it and increasingly treat other people as creditors, debtors, partners,... Read more

March 26, 2024

Keith playing and singing Hey You Get Off of my Shroud Read more

March 25, 2024

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March 24, 2024

“We are not, after all, defined by whatever longs and aspirations come out of our hearts, despite the remarkable rhetoric of our times [especially the LGBTQ+ rhetoric]. In the area of human well-being, that is the road to radical instability; in the area of theological beliefs it leads to Gnosticism (where you try to discern the hidden divine spark within yourself and then be true to it). Jesus himself was quite clear , following in the prophetic tradition: the human... Read more

March 23, 2024

We are all by now familiar with the famous reference in Ephesians 1.13-14 about the Holy Spirit and the seal which reads:  “When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a pledge/earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.”   The Greek word ‘arrabon’ does not mean ‘guarantee’.  The King James quite rightly renders it as ‘an earnest’ something given in advance as a... Read more

March 22, 2024

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March 21, 2024

Holy cow!   Signs in the heavens. The end must be near at hand.  Don’t blame me if I tried to milk this image for all its worth. Read more

March 20, 2024

Unlike many, Joni Mitchell was wary of the ‘starmaker machinery behind the popular song’.   She was an artist, a poet, a singer, but the idea of being a star or being idolized she wanted to hold at arm length and rightly so.  It is not only a mistake to want to be idolized, it’s a mistake to go beyond admiring a person’s good traits, skills or talents, to treating them with a form of borderline idolatry, ignoring all their sins... Read more

March 19, 2024

As I like to tell my students, if I find 92% of one term paper in another at a more than 50% verbatim rate, I’m going to know there is a literary relationship between them. Just so, there is definitely a literary relationship between Mark and Matthew, and ditto Luke and Mark. Read more


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