Category: New Writing

Each year from 1923 to 1943, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote elaborate letters from Father Christmas to his four children, with hand-drawn illustrations and characters inc...

The prophet Micah wrote, “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall c...

Throughout John, Jesus has been talking about things of heaven and of the Spirit. He tells Nicodemus that to see the Kingdom of God a person must be born again,...

John gives us another one of his timestamps in the first verse of Chapter 20: “Now early on the first day of the Sabbath-week, while it is still dark, Mary the ...

In John 19:30, after Jesus takes his final drink of watered-down wine, he said, “‘It has been completed.’ And lowering his head he delivered up his spirit.” The...

A week after Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph brought him to the Temple for circumcision, and Simeon prophesied over the infant: “Look: This one is appointed for...

The first part of John 18 has two pairs of characters, set on different sides of a hasty nighttime trial that is fishing for an excuse to send Jesus to the Roma...

Ask and you shall receive: the disciples had asked Jesus how to pray, and he gave them the Lord’s Prayer in response to their request. But Jesus had other praye...

In John 14-17, Jesus speaks in the form of a Jewish Farewell Discourse, but as usual, Jesus challenges and transforms the genre. For example, previous discourse...

The first food consumed on the moon’s surface was communion bread and wine, and the first scripture read (silently) was John 15:5. Buzz Aldrin was a Presbyteria...