We Still Like the Graven Part

“The modern man, ever since Descartes, has liked making idols out of intellectual abstractions . . . While abstractions make fine idols, it would be a grave mistake to think that modern men are somehow immune from the age-old pitfalls presented by various concrete idolatries. We like candles and graven images almost as much as …

Which Means That a Star is More Than We Think It Is

“If the narrative is to be trusted (and for evangelicals, it must be), then the star of Bethlehem identified a particular house in Bethlehem, singling it out from the others, in order that the magi would know what door to knock on. Now Bethlehem was only about six miles away from Jerusalem. Imagine trying to …