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Rejecting the Genesis Account is Rejecting an Absolute God
It is true that this story of man's fall is cast away as a relic of a mythological age by the average student of philosophy. But surely this is unjust. The question is not one merely of the historicity of the book of Genesis. It is that, but it is also more than...
Why do we let our daughters dress like that?
This kind of post always arouses the worst ire of those who think I am being ridiculous or legalistic, but when a Jewish mom from NYC asks the question in the Wall Street Journal, maybe we ought to take a few minutes to ponder the question of "Why do we let our...
Metaphor: The Language of Discovery and Invention
What is metaphor? Aristotle defined it as giving some “thing” a name that belongs to something else. The “thing” is called the metaphor’s “target” and the “something else” from which it takes a name is its “source.” Like the etymology of the word, meta (over, across,...
Metaphor, Part 2: The Pin-Prick of Metaphor
In his book, I is an Other, James Geary recounts the story of Édouard Claparède, a Swiss neurologist who studied patients with neurological damage who could not recall old memories. One of his patients had completely lost her short-term memory. Everyday when she...
The Place of Metaphor in Thinking, Writing, and Preaching, Part 1
I am the Good Shepherd. I am the Door. I am the Bread of Life. How often would I have gathered you under my wings. My beloved is a bouquet of flowers. I have fought a good fight. Metaphor is a powerful tool in communication; so powerful, in fact, that Jesus conveyed...
The Amazing of Story of One Who Went to Heaven and Described It in a Bestseller
"I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—and...
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