I think quite a lot about the Exodus because it, along with the Day of Atonement, are the two primary metaphors explaining why Jesus Christ’s work. Moses’ encounter with the Pharaoh and his gods is dramatic. God’s victory, through his servant Moses, over the gods of Egypt (which parallels Christ’s defeat of death and Satan, …
We experience time as “triune reality of past, present, and future” (p 14), Brandon Gallaher notes. It has often been said, as a way of getting to the same point, that time is an arrow. To be more specific, in geometric terms, time is a ray, a line that stretches in only one direction. Gallaher …
Some days ago it was brought to my attention that a link on this site was broken. The link was broken because my essays on Eastern Orthodoxy had disappeared from the internet. Sorting out the problem turned into a week’s worth of work. I couldn't just restore the link, I had to reformat the essays …
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Today is the United States holiday Labor Day. It’s one of those holidays that is well beyond its “purchase by …” date. It’s hard to imagine modern Labor Union bosses getting up off their negotiating couches to organize a parade such as that Sep 5, 1882 parade in New York City pictured above. But then …
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