I recently picked up Bruce Springsteen’s 510 page memoir, “Born To Run.” While Springsteen is not my absolute favorite rocker, I DID live in New Jersey for seven years and once won a contest that gave us front row center seats for one of his concerts. I count...

Many of you are familiar with the Romans Road, a collection of verses from that signature New Testament book designed to lead people on the “road” to salvation. It starts out with our Problem from Romans 3:23: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. It...

I have been reading the New Testament for a long time, but I realize that I am only now learning how to read its epistles correctly. And to read the New Testament well, you need to read the epistles (Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, et al) accurately. Here’s...

Way back in the spring of 1984, as I was winding up my English degree in college, I took a class on theories of literary interpretation.  It sounds kind of high falutin’, and I suppose it was. The teacher was Louis Menand, who has gone on to a measure of fame as...