Hunting Magic Eels by Richard Beck was a great read. In a way, gave me “permission” to be enchanted and to allow for more of the...

https://renew.org/satan-function-and-foe/ If you’ve read my previous articles on Satan and the Spiritual Realm, you may have found them...

https://renew.org/satanic-imagery-in-the-bible/ In a previous article, I laid out some of the information we find about Satan in the Old...

https://renew.org/some-uncommon-thoughts-about-the-book-of-ruth/ The scriptural narrative of the promised land that Israel would come to...

Over the past six months, I've come to question if spontaneous prayer is really the best way to pray. When Jesus' disciples asked him...

https://renew.org/satan-in-the-old-testament/ In recent scholarship, the traditional Christian interpretation of Satan has come under...

In the first part of this series on hell, I talked about the Old Testament theology of the afterlife, and then I started getting into...

Isn’t hell so fun to talk about? Not really. If we’re honest, many of us like to avoid the subject. Most people may have some idea what...

https://renew.org/the-slaughter-of-the-canaanites-our-options/ “[The Israelites] sacrificed their sons and their daughters to false gods....

https://renew.org/book-review-origins-by-paul-copan-and-douglas-jacoby/ Origins: The Ancient Impact and Modern Implications of Genesis...

https://renew.org/the-slaughter-of-the-canaanites-an-answer/ “We don’t realize the extent to which our framework for thinking about the...

A: This is an excellent question and there are a couple possible answers. If we are to take a completely literal approach to the first...

The Old Testament is difficult. The misconceptions by Christians and non-Christians are many making the Old Testament a well of...

For clarification’s sake, what I mean by a Christian worldview is a view that accepts both the Old and New Testaments as the inspired...

One question we often ask when facing suffering is, “Why doesn’t God intervene?” or “Why doesn’t he just take away my suffering?” This...