In last week’s entry (Genesis 1: Creating Order with Boundaries), I discussed how boundaries are essential to creating a functional society, as gleaned from the Creation narrative in the opening ...

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If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we would ever get past the first chapter. Consider: in ancient Near Eastern societies, it was the king who was thought of as an image of God; it was ...

This Sept. 26, 2022, satellite image released by NASA shows Hurricane Ian growing stronger as it barreled toward Cuba. (NASA Worldview/Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via ...