IS IT REALLY PAGAN? Throughout Israel’s history, God’s people often mingled their worship of the one true God with customs and traditions...

I’m gay and not ashamed to admit it. Yes, readers, I’m coming out of the closet and admitting that I am gay. I’m happy and carefree....

Syncretism is defined as "the combination of different forms of belief or practice" (Webster's). The word syncretism does not appear in...

The following is excerpted and adapted from my booklet The Ghost of Marcion, written circa 1990. – DB How should a disciple of...

About this time of year, we can look forward to seeing the first signs of spring: flowers pushing their way up through the soil, robins...

The Curse: A God-Sent Insanity Upon Our Land “The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart” (Deut....

Pagan cultures have different superstitions about sneezing. Sneezing, depending on the number or type of sneezes, is believed to be a sign

The title of this article is a line I borrowed from Art Cox, the pastor of our local congregation. Some time ago Art was preaching about the

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who put everybody into one of two categories, and those who don’t. I do because the Bible

As I write this, Passover, the festival of freedom, has passed. Now we are counting the seven Sabbaths to Shavuot (Pentecost), the anniversa