by Christina M.H. Powell, PhD (InterVarsity Press, 2014)
by Christina M.H. Powell, PhD (InterVarsity Press, 2014)
Photos or it never happened – I left you pondering the question of what you consider strong evidence to authenticate people from antiquity. In particular, I asked what evidence do we have for the existence of Socrates, Aristotle, or Cleopatra? You are reading a blog post not an exhaustive history text book, so we’ll keep […]
Bought the Colossal Alaskan King crab legs and prepared them for dinner? Shook hands with the President of the United States? Climbed to the top of Mount Everest? Prove it- photos or it never happened. We live in the age of the luxury of instant authentication: live news feeds of ongoing tornados, videos of marriage […]
More than twenty years ago, when I was training to become a minister shortly after I obtained my doctoral degree from Harvard University, I learned an important concept still applicable today. In preparing a sermon to preach, the minister studies in two ways: one way to prepare the sermon, the other to prepare the preacher. […]
A new year brings new opportunities for achievements, for joy, for receiving blessings and bestowing blessings on others (Psalms 126). For many people, 2020 was a difficult year, and 2021 brings the promise of a better future. The sun sets on New Year’s Eve and rises on New Year’s Day, and one year turns into […]
Today marks the end of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the United States. In a world that has experienced the challenges of a pandemic this year, words like thankful, grateful, and blessed may seen foreign. Holidays are filled with traditions and expectations, but no one year tells the story of a holiday celebration. Similarly, no […]
Confidence is a necessary item, especially in young people. Looking over a few of the press clippings from when I was an undergraduate at Penn State University, I found my response to a newspaper editorial when I was only twenty years old and freshly appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania to serve on a University […]
Happy Mother’s Day 2020! I hope all women who are moms can relate to Proverbs 31:25 today. I know women experience this holiday differently, as I have myself during different seasons of my life. In my early twenties, married and working long hours as a cancer researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and leading a […]
Someone visited my blog and asked: “Who set the market value of sparrows in Jesus’s time? What where sparrows used for? Modern farmers see them as a liability to be exterminated to control over population. From a supply and demand analysis, sparrows would be worthless. Why would a market exist in the first place? Therefore […]
