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Science Is Not the Enemy of Your Faith

The claim was wrong, the kids repeated it at school, and the correction took thirty seconds. The war between science and faith was invented in the nineteenth century, and the church is still fighting it.

Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?

Raiders of the Lost Ark ends with the Ark crated up in a government warehouse, and every tradition has its own warehouse. Here is every serious claim about where the Ark is today, ranked by what actually backs it, and the verse in Jeremiah that nobody quotes because it tells you to stop looking.

Reversing Hermon: The Watchers and the Mission of Jesus

Genesis 6 gets hurried past. The New Testament writers did not hurry past it. A chapter-by-chapter guide to Heiser’s Reversing Hermon and the Book of Enoch underneath it.

The Names I Didn’t Know

I started with a simple question: how did the Bible on my desk get here? The material wasn't too hard. It was full of people I had never heard of, mentioned as if I already knew them. Chasing those names down turned out to be the whole method.

Jerome: The Man Who Went Back to the Hebrew

He learned Hebrew in a desert in his thirties, when almost nobody in the Latin West bothered with it, and then spent thirty-four years translating the Old Testament from the original. The Bible on your desk still carries the shape of that decision, and so does the most famous mistranslation ever pinned on anyone.

The Book of the Watchers: 1 Enoch 1–36, Read Aloud

1 Enoch chapters one through thirty-six, the Book of the Watchers, in the R. H. Charles 1917 translation. Not a summary and not commentary, just the book itself, formatted to be listened to straight through in five movements.

Which Book of Enoch? 1, 2, 3 Enoch, Jubilees, and Why None of Them Made the Cut

Someone hands you "the Book of Enoch" like it's a lost chapter of Scripture. There is no single Book of Enoch. There are at least four Enoch-branded works, written centuries apart, in three languages, and Josephus already told the Romans why none of them counted.

What the Image of God Actually Is, and What It Means to Be an Imager

Ask most people what the image of God is and you'll hear the same answer: our reason, our conscience, the divine spark inside us. It sounds right, and it does not survive contact with the text. What replaces it is bigger, stranger, and far more useful.

How I Study the Bible

I am not a seminary graduate. What I have is a large library, years of reading, and forty years of wrestling with a God I could not fully explain. Here is how the work actually gets done.

Jephthah’s Study of Judges 11

Did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter or dedicate her to lifelong service? A full read of Judges 11: the outcast warrior, the rash vow, and the silence of God, working through Wilcock and Block on what the text actually says.