Frankly Speaking

Every once in a while, I like to talk about websites that most visitors to this blog are going to like. Here are a couple of my favorite rec...

How many students of biblical Hebrew have mastered the basics only to discover that they could hardly make it through more than one verse of...

Last week was Finals Week at Amarillo College . On Thursday, we reported all of the course grades for the semester. Looking back on a term j...

Here in Amarillo, Texas, it'll struggle to get up to 25 degrees today. It was 9 when I got up, currently 11. Today's high in Bango...

I've been teaching from the Book of Psalms on Wednesday nights. What a blessing. But what a challenge, too. We started out with an intro...

The November 2008 issue of the Gospel Advocate magazine features several articles on "The Emerging Church Movement." Evidently, wh...

I've been thinking lately about the quality of singing in Churches of Christ. I don't have anything like statistical proof or scient...

The Census Bureau now estimates that minorities will become the majority in the United States by the year 2042. That's different from ea...

Most every Sunday evening, while driving to another of those traditional 6:00 o'clock church services, I listen to the last few minutes ...

A few years ago, I came across what has to be one of the most interesting works of art in New York City. It's not at the Guggenheim or t...

In the spring of 1945, C. S. Lewis published a little book he called, The Great Divorce . He realized, naturally, that the title would raise...

Any careful student of 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus will eventually raise an important question: When did the Apostle Paul write these letters?...