Most modern biblical scholars believe that identifying the serpent with the Devil is not the original meaning of the Genesis account, but the result of centuries of development in Jewish and Christian theological thought. What was the serpent at the time Genesis was written? Simply “the serpent, more crafty than…
When we switch on a lamp, it seems as if the light appears instantly. You flip the switch — and a dark room is filled with light. But if you look more closely, you’ll find that light is not the first link in that chain. It is always preceded by…
Why are cats so unflappable and calm? “Cat calm” is a blend of several things: the wiring of their nervous system, a survival strategy, and the behavioral traits of a predator. A cat is a solitary ambush hunter. For that kind of predator it pays to lie still for long…
The Way is older than Christianity. That sounds surprising, yet that is exactly how the early movement of Jesus’ followers is described in the book of Acts. Before the word “Christian” appeared, there was another designation — “the Way.” It first appears in chapter 9 of Acts, where Saul receives…
Christians rarely adopt new religious ideas quickly. And it’s not just stubbornness. Most people organize their inner life around familiar notions of God, goodness, salvation, and the meaning of life. Those beliefs become part of who they are. That’s why abrupt spiritual revolutions almost never work. A person can hear…
People see grass as green. But grass does not have color in the absolute sense. Different biological beings see grass differently. What we call color is the result of the interaction between light, an object’s surface, the observer’s eye and brain. So grass appears green to a human because chlorophyll…
Christians know the commandment “do not steal.” They read the Bible, go to church, listen to sermons, and sing about holiness and honesty. Yet history reveals an unpleasant fact: religiosity by itself does not protect a person from moral failure. More than that, sometimes a religious person becomes especially skilled…
The word “biological” in the modern world is often associated with materialism, the reduction of a person to chemistry, Darwinism, and a purely physical life. So some readers might mistakenly think that here spirituality is being reduced to the biology of the body. Not at all. Jesus described spiritual life…
One of the central thrusts of Jesus’ teaching is that the life of the Kingdom of God is an organic process of growth, not a static condition. For Jesus almost all the primary metaphors are dynamic: seed, leaven, the vine, birth, fruit, water, the way. For him, everything alive either…
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How to come to know Jesus, to commune with Him, to discern His presence? The first decision is to devote as much time as possible to Him: read, study, return to what you don’t understand. Accumulate “Christ-hours” until the information coalesces into a recognizable face and study becomes an encounter. It seems that after a…
A person sits in the kitchen staring at their phone. They want to call someone — to tell how their day went, to complain, to hear, “I understand you.” They scroll through names and put the phone down. This one will be studying. That one will make a joke. Another will listen and then tell…
A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. We have known this since childhood and have almost stopped being surprised: a creature whose whole life took place on the surface of a leaf one day unfolds its wings. But what if the possibility of change is hidden in a person as well—change that cannot be imagined from inside…
