Before launching this site in October 2018, I put a tagline under my name in the masthead. At first, it referred rather boringly to the half-century of retrospective I wanted to set down here. I eventually changed it to “Navigating this dispensation’s last days” and cited a couple of Biblical verses to justify the reference … Continue reading ““Helping you navigate this dispensation’s last days”: What do I mean?”
A friend sent me an image of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, vested as Pope Benedict XVI, his title from 2005 to 2013, the year he retired, now living a life of prayer, meditation, and Scripture study. Inscribed on it is an exhortation: I urge you to become familiar with the Bible, and to have it at … Continue reading “Yielding to Scripture outwardly and inwardly”
“Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.” James 3:4 Ships of state are ever careering off the courses set by their human pilots. Their “governors” can hold things together for, maybe, a generation and … Continue reading “To govern is to steer: demonstrably, we cannot govern”
A lifelong New Yorker, I studied philosophy in the early 1970s at New York University (under Sidney Hook, while working for Herbert Aptheker and studying jazz guitar under Pat Martino) and in the late 1970s at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (under Milton K. Munitz and J. B. Schneewind). By … Continue reading “About”
In a recent post I challenged readers to point to evidence that explains how in four score years first-century ekklesiai, made up mainly by the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16), organically devolved into an anti-Semitic racket with whose “wrong division” of the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15) Christians are still coming to terms. I had … Continue reading “The “Cinderella century”: anticipating Michael Kruger’s “Christianity at the Crossroads””
Like earthquakes, there will be wars and rumors of war (Matthew 24:6) during the seven-year rebellion that follows the Holy Spirit’s lifting of His restraints on His subjects after centuries of government. Today, they continue to occur as they have for centuries. They therefore cannot serve as prophetic signs today. The occurrence of earthquakes will, … Continue reading “Kingdom economics? A speculation.”
A Case of Mistaken Identity? Rooted in κυριακόν (kyriakon), the English word “church” is the traditional translation of the Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsia). We may be practically stuck with it, but it’s a mistranslation, one that reinforces a misnomer at least as unhappy as Columbus’s tagging as “Indians” the aboriginal peoples who got to the Americas … Continue reading “From (mostly) Jewish “ekklesiai” to anti-Jewish “churches” in 80 years: Dean Stanley’s questions.”
On his Gravatar profile this blog’s most recent (and welcome!) subscriber cites a few Bible verses: Titus 2:13, Isaiah 40:5, and 2 Timothy 4:1, 8. He adds this caption: “Awaiting Anxiously God’s Next Move, Having That Blessed Hope: His Appearing, Blazing Forth (Epiphaneia) . . . . The Next Event (God’s Prophetic Clock ).” That … Continue reading “God’s Next Move? The Second Coming, not of Christ, but of His Spirit.”
Rather than let another week go by without posting, I’ll give the text of a leaflet by Otis Q. Sellers (1901-1992), whose life and thought form the subject of a book I’m working on (my ready excuse for neglecting this blog). It’s Seed and Bread No. 49, one in a series of almost 200 tracts … Continue reading “God’s Prophesied Global Government and Its Blessings”
I appreciate the feedback some readers gave when I asked what they’d like to see more of/less of on this blog. The received wisdom in the blogosphere is that the blogger must be obsessively reader-centric; this means making readers hungry for one’s next post. Can I do that? I don’t know. My interests intersect with … Continue reading “This blog’s direction”
