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As part of the research for my fiction project telling the backstory of Philemon in the New Testament, I recently read I, Claudius by...

Last week I visited the Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles for the first time. One of my favorite pieces was Andreas Gursky’s, “Amazon”...

According to Orlando Patterson, the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus wrote, “The height of misery is to live at another’s will”...

I have often felt a tension in my theology when it comes to the concept of joy. On the one hand, in Galatians (5:22) Paul counts joy...

I’m writing a historical novel that tells the backstory of Paul’s little New Testament letter to Philemon. The letter is written to a...

Last week I listened to a Pray as You Go podcast focused on Matthew 5:43-45: 43 You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your...

I listen regularly to the Pray as You Go podcast. Last week, one of the passages featured was the passage below from Paul’s second letter...

As I launch into fiction writing, I’ve been reading Robert McKee’s Story as a guide to the principles of good narrative. I just came...

I’ve been reading Melville’s masterpiece Moby Dick and came across the following passage describing how Ahab’s mania for the great white...