Lifting the Fog From Doubting Thomas: Part 3-Thomas Has FOMO
FOMO I had several vacation trips scheduled this year, so I chose not to attend my Sorority’s biennial national convention. If I had made that choice in the 80s or…
Lifting the Fog From Doubting Thomas: Part 2-Conditional Thomas
Update: I have struggled to write Part 2 of this series. My goal for the series was to vindicate Thomas, to lift the fog around his disparaging nickname. I asked…
Lifting the Fog from Doubting Thomas, Part 1: Who Was Thomas?
I remember as a first-grader learning that fog was actually low-lying clouds. I reveled knowing that when I walked through fog I was walking through a cloud. I excitedly shared…
Revisiting Jonah: Judging Too Quickly
On 12/04/2020, I posted the blog Jonah-The Adult Version. Reading the Book of Jonah in its entirety had given me insight beyond the children’s version of Jonah and the whale.…
More Than My Name
I recently became curious about the names of the four Hebrew boys—Daniel, Mishael, Hananiah, and Azariah—who had been taken from Judah. They were placed under the tutelage of Nebuchadnezzar’s chief…
Noah and the Ark-The Adult Version
This picture hung in my daughter’s bedroom in her childhood. I wanted to be obedient and train up my child in the way she should follow. This picture was just…
Jonah-The Adult Version
Noah's Ark Often children’s Bible stories are cartoonishly illustrated, presumably to get their attention. One such image I remember from my childhood is Jonah inside the whale. What I remember…