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Crusading on Twitter

Here’s my Pinned Tweet: God loves you more than you can possibly imagine. — Robert P. Murphy (@BobMurphyEcon) May 16, 2016 Maybe once a week or so, I’ll get some wiseguy (sometimes with and sometimes without malice) who will respond with a Bible verse listing an Old Testament death penalty for something that sounds innocuous […]

The Love of the Father and the Son

This post will probably only matter to Christians, just to warn you… I am relaying a train of thought that occurred to me a few days which you may find of interest. I could imagine letting someone attack me even when I’m completely not at fault. For example, suppose I’m walking down the street at […]

Heaven on Earth

I was going over the “Our Father” very slowly with my son, since there is often a tendency for Christians to rush through it without really contemplating the words. When we got to “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven,” I stopped to dwell on just how amazing […]

“The Case for Christ”

This was a surprisingly good movie. I thought it might be a documentary, but it’s a “real movie.” It’s about journalist Lee Strobel and his mission to disprove the Resurrection.

Internet Atheists on Science vs. Religion and Women’s Rights

I recently came across this meme on Twitter, from the “Atheist Republic” account: Now I grant you this is somewhat untestable, since I probably don’t think to tell you all the times my hunches are wrong, but for what it’s worth, I had a very strong suspicion when I saw this picture, that the woman […]

The Origin and Structure of the Universe

I saw “Is Genesis History?” a few weeks ago and thought it was very well done. Given its heroic (some would say impossible) task–namely, to interview a string of PhDs to say that it’s not crazy to believe in the Genesis account–I thought it was very impressive. I’m not saying it is a slam dunk […]

“The God of the Old Testament”

I think a lot of people–including me when I was younger–think that there are two separate Gods in the Christian Bible. First there’s the mean vindictive God of the Old Testament, and then there’s the nice guy Jesus in the New Testament. However, you do see all of Jesus’ character traits in the “God of […]

The Tabernacle of Exodus

In my Bible study we just got finished with the book of Exodus. I didn’t realize until reading the commentary on the last chapter that the book wraps up only one year after they left Egypt. Another thing: When I was younger, I misunderstood all the references to “the tabernacle.” Being raised Catholic, I thought […]