Frankly Speaking

Every period of church history exhibits a different set of strengths and weaknesses. Human nature being what it is, we tend to prize what we...

My friend Stan is in much better shape than we feared last week. He's banged up and will have to spend a good bit of time recuperating. ...

A friend and confidant, someone whom I respect so much, was in an accident yesterday. This is serious stuff. He had to be transported to a ...

This semester, I have to be loaded for bear every Wednesday. It's the one day of week when I teach all day long. I start at 9:00 a.m. an...

One of my current reads is Michael F. Bird's new book Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message . Bird says that his aim is...

I have a biblical Hebrew reading group that meets for a few hours almost every Tuesday night. One of the participants serves as the director...

Last Sunday's Amarillo Globe-News included an editorial I wrote. I was responding to an article by one of the paper's regular colum...

Among the ancient Israelites, there were three kinds of spiritual leaders: 1. There were the priests, the kohanim . The priest was a desc...

The Book of Ecclesiastes is a puzzle from the very start: What does Ecclesiastes mean? The Hebrew title of the book is Qohelet, another wor...

Sometime in the middle of the night (must have been the wee hours of Friday morning) I woke to one of those eerie sounds you could never get...

I took this photo mid-afternoon on Thursday of this week. It was about 74 degrees, a beautiful day. Oh, that's the Amarillo Bible Chair,...

As I write this, it's not yet noon on Thursday and it's 66 degrees and mostly sunny here in Amarillo. Later tonight and tomorrow, we...