Eve’s Image

I’m told that from the very beginning, both male and female were made in the image of God. Male alone doesn’t represent who and what God is. Female alone doesn’t represent who an what God is. In recent decades, much has been made of Adam imaging God’s masculinity. But there’s little discussion as to Eve […]

Scripted

The other day, as I watched the movie Pleasantville, the ending just jumped out at me: David’s Mom: (Having just been crying.) When your father was here, I used to think, “This was it. This is the way it was always going to be. I had the right house. I had the right car. I […]

A Question on Divorce

Matthew 19’s first section begins with a question: “Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”” Where did this question come from? It’s actually a question of the interpretation of Deuteronomy 24:1-4 between two well-known rabbis – Hillel […]

Matches

So the other day I was listening to a radio station online and I was intrigued by the first set of lyrics. An approximate translation is something like this: We are all matches from the same box, some light up early and others take longer to go out, some never catch fire, others fail to […]