The original New Testament is believed to have been written in Koine Greek and entirely CAPITALIZED LIKE THIS. This was what the common people spoke in the Eastern Mediterranean, from Alexander until around 600 A.D. Letters in ancient Hebrew are all written at the same height, with five letters sometimes…

Jesus says we should put our weapons away. Republican leaders invariably increase the annual military budget and, they vehemently oppose any type of sane gun control. Even though nations with gun control laws have far less murders and mass shootings per capita than we do here in the United States…

When I was a kid, we collected empty soda bottles to pay for a pocket full of the best candy in the world; individually wrapped cinnamon red-hots, two for a penny. When I was a kid, frustrated teachers gave us swats, but no kid went to jail for misbehaving in…

Did you ever notice that folks who carry pro-life signs never carry anti-war signs, never carry anti-homelessness signs, never carry anti-mass pollution signs, never carry universal healthcare signs? This is because they aren’t really pro-life. A real pro-life person would carry all of these signs. A real pro-life person would…

There is no historical or other evidence that Jesus is the founder of either Christianity or any other religion. Rather, from a fair historical perspective, Jesus is the founder of human and civil rights and, the founder of free quality education for the common masses (which is exactly what one…

The real Jesus, as portrayed in the four biographies of him in the New Testament, is a highly religious man in one and only one sense: He very strongly believes in and depends on God. Otherwise, there is no religion in Jesus, as the term is commonly understood today. …

The word “religion” is an extremely loaded term in modern-day America. Various uses and misuses of this term leads to confusion and outright misinformation. Unfortunately, God is often equated in the same general idea as Islam, Christianity, Catholicism and similar, although Christians in particular should know better. In the biblical…

The Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a deliberate effort to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council, was notable for its…

Is it just me or, has anyone else noticed that in the past decade or two, the word “empathy”, a term once seldom heard, has perhaps become the most over-hyped and certainly, most over-used word in the English language? …