Category: Biblical Interpretation

Why I Stayed Right: How Studying Religion Kept Me a Conservative

My interest in politics began in 2000 when my father taught me how the Electoral College worked for electing a president. I was a young teenager but my interest in politics, like my awareness of the world, grew. We had our guy in the White House and they didn’t. Our nation went off to war

Does God Hate Shrimp?

This website was recently brought to my attention: http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/ Basically the site argues that Christians are cherry-picking which verses from the Old Testament to use. Aside from the fact that there are verses against homosexual behavior in the New Testament, let’s take a look at why Christians still apply Old Testament verses today. As someone

Gandalf the Philosopher of Language

I was doing some reading the other day and came across a passage in the Hobbit, and I found it particularly helpful when thinking about interpreting the Bible. In their first interaction Bilbo and Gandalf greet one another. Allow me to provide the passage for you: “Good morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The