This is Faith in Play #76: Lineage, for March 2024. Lineage–the chain of ancestry from father to son over generations–is a very significant theme in the Bible, more so than even many serious students of the Bible realize. We recognize that the Old Testament is laced with family records covering centuries, and that in the … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #63: Inadequacy, for February 2023. Decades ago comedian Bill Cosby got a lot of laughs from a sketch about Noah’s conversations with God. Throughout Noah is full of doubts and questions (“Am I on Candid Camera?), not at all happy with what he has been instructed to do. We don’t … [Read more…]
This is Faith in Play #41: Faith, for April 2021. Recently somewhere on the Web a discussion arose that suggested that if you build a world in which God or the gods manifest visibly frequently and work wonders regularly, there is no need for faith in such a world. I am persuaded that this is … [Read more…]