The Torah Can Guide Your Search for a Healthy Church
‘This feels like when my parents announced they were getting divorced after I graduated high school. I wondered how much…
We Should Regard These Two Overlooked Women as Biblical Matriarchs
The honorable Zilpah and Bilhah stand in the shadows of their mistresses Leah and Rachel and have been undeservedly unremembered.
Which Ten? How We Number the Ten Commandments Matters
There are at least three places in the Ten Commandments where punctuation needs to be clarified with important implications for interpretation.
Is Christianity about Following Rules, or Is It about Having a Relationship with God? Yes
Some people think Christianity isn’t about following rules, but about having a personal relationship with God. This belief betrays deep confusion.
Old Covenant vs. New Covenant? A Better Way to Understand God’s Promises
Hearing of the “new” covenant, it’s easy to imagine it as set against an “old” covenant. But we need to look closer.
Knowing Jesus Means Knowing the Old Testament—and Rejecting ‘Functional Marcionism’
This essay addresses the false dichotomy in the church of “Old Testament vs. New Testament.”
#Blessed: What Is a Blessing in Scripture, Actually?
Think you’re #blessed? In the Bible, blessings can be given from God to man, from man to God, and from man to man.
Painting the Biblical Story
Dr. Beldman’s student Ingrid Bouma produced a series of eleven original paintings that together tell the biblical story.
A Wrinkle in Time? Mental Time Travel and Memory in the Bible
How will the people remain faithful to the covenant without Moses? For Deuteronomy, the answer is memory.
