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When my book proposal for God Behaving Badly went to publishers (Sept 2009) word came back that Baker already had a book on a similar topic coming out which… — July 25, 2011

Last night we watched the film Inside Job, directed by Charles Ferguson (co-produced by Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Philadelphia Eagles), telling the story of how financial deregulation contributed… — July 23, 2011

After Elijah's delivers his message of canine blood licking to Ahab and Jezebel, amazingly Ahab repents and puts on sackcloth (1 Kings 21:27).  YHWH is so impressed that he… — July 22, 2011

Last time we saw Elijah trash talk Baal's prophets, then slaughter them.  Jezebel then put out a hit on Elijah, who mysteriously flees and becomes suicidal (the other… — July 21, 2011

After Elijah had bumped off the prophets of Baal (see last blog and 1 Kings 18:40), Jezebel, who seemed to be the one who really wore the trousers… — July 19, 2011

Jezebel, wife of Ahab, has been slaughtering the prophets of YHWH in record numbers (1 Kings 18:4), so Elijah tells Ahab to gather the prophets of Baal and… — July 17, 2011

The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented amount of books (and films and games) devoted to zombies.  For example, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War… — July 16, 2011

Since we went to the Caribbean to celebrate our 20th anniversary last week, I decided to read about the Haiti earthquake in Kent Annan's new book, After Shock:… — July 14, 2011

Here's the link to the July 2011 Christianity Today excerpt (the "wedgie for a wedgie" story).  I'm now CT's go-to guy on the theological implications of wedgies (you got… — July 12, 2011

Yesterday's Sunday's Doonesbury strip (July 10, 2011) would have been perfect for God Behaving Badly (perhaps it will go into the next book?). I think the earth is old (much older… — July 11, 2011

King Ahaz of Judah is worried.  His two rivals to the north, Rezin of Aram and Pekah of Israel had allied against him, probably to force him into… — July 10, 2011

I'm currently in the Caribbean (Turks and Caicos) celebrating 20 years of marriage to Shannon.  (No, I didn't get this picture from Google images, that's actually us.  Green bowties… — July 4, 2011

I found out last month that Christianity Today was going to print an excerpt from God Behaving Badly in its July magazine. I've been frantically checking our mailbox… — July 2, 2011

"I will strike you down and cut off your head."  These words are uttered by the boy David to the giant Goliath in 1 Samuel 17:46.  It's hard… — July 1, 2011

As we've looked at the first psalm, we've discussed the benefits that come from an obsession with God's law, and the downside of not delighting in torah (=… — June 29, 2011

    I had the priviledge of being interviewed about my book God Behaving Badly by Brian Auten yesterday for Apologetic315.   Brian is "director of Reasonable Faith Belfast and… — June 27, 2011

Psalm 1 provides both positive and negative motivation for delighting in the law of YHWH.  After describing the carrot (prosperity) that comes to the torah-obsessed person in verse… — June 26, 2011

The person that delights in God's Torah is like a tree planted by streams of water.  Remember that Israel was a more arid land than much of the… — June 21, 2011