Quotidian Grace

This week our BSD groups begin studying Paul's second letter to the church in Corinth--which we learned in the lesson is the fourth kn...

What if Nehemiah had a Twitter account to tweet the events we are studying this week in chapters 11, 12 and 13? Might it look something li...

I'm tardy posting the link to my lecture last Thursday on Lesson 8 which covers chapters 9 and 10 of Nehemiah. Sorry about that! Cl...

I'm doing the lecture this week on chapters 9 and 10 of Nehemiah and while preparing the lecture I got to thinking about Sabbath and S...

Modern-day Samaritans celebrating Shauvoth on Mount Gezirim In Nehemiah we read of the enmity between the Samaritans--especially their ...

I meant to post about Lesson 6 which covers chapter 5 of Nehemiah but life got in the way as I was preparing this lecture! The theme of th...

Now that I am close to my goal I'm having the most fun ever buying a new wardrobe--from the inside out. I have lost 3 sizes and now happ...

This week we are reading chapters 4 and 6 of the book of Nehemiah. It may strike you as odd to skip over chapter 5, but the themes of chapte...

I chose to do Weight Watchers online instead of attending meetings and it worked really well for me. Years ago I did attend WW meetings,  ...

The Eastern Gate of Jerusalem A number of years ago I took a course in Biblical Interpretation through the Austin Seminary extension pro...

I usually shy away from blogging about personal stuff, but I'm going to make an exception by special request. Robin Craig--you asked f...

Here's a link to the podcast of my BSD lecture yesterday on Lesson 3: A Burden of the Work of Rebuilding which covers Nehemiah 2: 1-...

This week's lesson covers Nehemiah 2:1-10. Since I'm giving the lecture tomorrow I don't want to repeat it here, so inste...

Calling all Liturgical Mysteries fans! The latest book in the series, The Treble Wore Trouble , is now available! This is a quasi-revi...

The prophet Jeremiah said that the Jews would spend 70 years in exile before the Lord would permit them to return to Jerusalem. Inquirin...

Our daughter is expecting a second child in February so there has been a lot of discussion around the family about names for the baby. Sin...

                                                                                 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept whe...

This summer the pastors at our church are preaching a series on the Psalms. Each Sunday a church member has been asked to write and read an ...

  Although the title sounds polemical, Ross Douthat's book is actually a thorough, thoughtful and scholarly study of the ways in wh...