WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS. Moments before showtime our vacuum cleaner died, we discovered a nail in our truck tire, the air conditioner broke, and we had to evacuate our children to the living room for a camp out, once a dust bomb exploded upstairs. And we're leaving for...
PASTOR NATE WOLFE AND I HAD SUCH A GREAT CONVERSATION a couple of weeks ago that we decided to call each other back up and make a recording of it. Among our talking points was marriage and why engaging the "Truther Movement" as a husband and wife team, specifically...
WHY EMPEROR Maxentius chose to meet Constantine in open battle, rather than endure a siege in Rome, is a question best relegated to histories prodigious book of blunders. Rome was undoubtedly stockpiled for such an event. Evidence points to the fact that both Valerius...
1 My son, do not forget my teaching, But let your heart keep my commandments; 2 For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vsnepVJSU 3 Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your...
1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, And in His law he meditates day and night....
THERE’S A SAYING AMONG THE PREACHERS OF OLD. Come Monday morning—or rather, come every Monday morning, they begin writing their resignation letter. Not too long ago I had this alluring, lucid dream. I dreamt I cut the umbilical cord that kept me attached to the...
MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS ABOUT ME, but for nearly a decade of my adult life I was a nationwide "renowned" wedding photographer. I rarely talk about it anymore. History has moved on without me. It is by my own decision and design—and I am gratefully forgotten. Based...
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A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO I WAS CONTACTED by several separate individuals, all of whom hoped to enlist me in hampering the pervasive pestilence of the growing Torah movement by disproving the claims of its adherents. This would be easily done, I told them. After all,...
MY WIFE AND I LIVE NOW IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. Charleston, South Carolina. Half of the year, at least. This is the home we've chosen to make for ourselves when we're not out traveling—living life on the road. The low country is beautiful country—some of the loveliest...
AS THE WEEKS CRAWLED INTO THE AGONY OF MONTHS, loyal friends began to trickle into the Apostle Paul’s hellhole with fragile hopes of shining a light upon the dark days of imprisonment. His resolve however would ultimately be strengthened in the unlikeliest of...
THE LONGER I’VE BEEN IN THE FAITH; THE MORE I MATURE; and the firmer I become on various doctrinal positions—everything from eschatology and cosmology to graceology and doxology—I find myself succumbing to an ever-deepening fear of the Lord on the understanding, and...
LONG AGO TWO HUNDRED ANGELS DESCENDED upon Mount Hermon in order that humanity might learn the mysteries of heaven, and then one day, while Azazel, Semjaza, and the lot of their fellow transgressors were sitting around weeping, the Prophet Enoch met them. He had been...
ONCE UPON A TIME THALES WAS OUT TAKING A WALK, counting the crystalline constellations without thinking so much as to observe his footing, when he stumbled headlong into a well. This in itself is not the great tragedy of the tale, as we are quickly informed it...
IN A WAY, Job and his three friends were severely handicapped intellectuals. When Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar heard of the evil that had befallen him, they made an appointment together to mourn at his side. We quickly read: “When they lifted up their eyes, afar off,...
IF THERE WAS ANY QUESTION AS TO WHY the silent screen actor Rudolph Valentino had earned himself the nickname “Latin Lover,” the unbridled screams of 10,000 women, who invaded his funeral in 1926—having died at the pre-mature age of 31—should erase any doubt. After...
FOR THE MEDIEVAL COMMENTATOR, HE WAS A LEPER, while some modern scholars’ finger scurvy as the culprit. And it has been suggested that no less than fourteen diseases are attributed to him. Poor Job—as the disease laid hold of his body, eating away at his flesh, the...
HIS NAME MEANS “JEHOVAH LEADS” IN HEBREW. But for Judas Iscariot, there is a rich irony here, because no other individual was more clearly led by Satan than he. Supposing a man returned to our present day by way of Einsteinian equations and mind-bending bewitchments...
MRS. HADLEY AND THE KIDS WERE ALREADY IN BED for the night, so we stripped down of everything but our bathing suites and yielded to the potency of a bubbling cauldron. I was almost immediately pressed to a conversation among strangers that I’d hoped to retreat from...
THE BABYLON WORKING BY DAY, Jack Parsons launched the Cold War. By night, the founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory emerged from a coffin to perform the Enochian magic first began by Englishman John Dee. His own esoteric works were often mixed with his...
SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY OF THE BEATLES CANNOT READ or write music. ‘Yesterday,’ he told Larry King, simply came to him in a dream. And I know what you’re likely already thinking. As one of history’s greatest hit-makers, McCartney was simply being modest. Let us then...
A MANIFEST DESTINY OF THE COPERNICAN NATURE was finally pressed upon and dutifully commissioned by President John F. Kennedy when he inspired his nation with the following decree: “We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights...