The Sawdust Trail

I remember as a child we always watched the Billy Graham crusades on TV.  I don’t know why, really.  My parents were not Christians, as far as I knew.  They never went to church and they certainly never took, or even made, my sister and I go to church.  We never mentioned God or prayed, had no Bible on display, or acted in any way that might give the impression Jesus was anything special.   Yet, we always watched these crusades.  Perhaps it was because there were only three channels then.   I don’t know if maybe it was on all three, or it took the place of their favorite show.  It was during these televised crusades that I first heard the term “the saw dust trail”...

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climate change, the fossil record and the Bible

A few days ago. I was half listening to some talking head on a news show - the TV was on in the background as I was preparing for work. He was on about the “rapid” heating of the Earth and the “catastrophic” effect it is having on our fair planet. It started me thinking about the good old days, no not back in the 70’s when the parents of the current crop of talking head, were crowing about the coming “disaster” of global cooling. Back when I was in high school we were facing a certainty of the polar ice cap enveloping the world. We were doomed to freeze to death...

66 seems right to me


How many books make up what we commonly call the Bible?   Most will say 66 books, but few can explain why it is 66 and not 65 or 70 or some other number.  There are, after all, dozens of books that claim to be this gospel or that, written by a supposed disciple or near to be...

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66 seems right to me


How many books make up what we commonly call the Bible?   Most will say 66 books, but few can explain why it is 66 and not 65 or 70 or some other number.  There are, after all, dozens of books that claim to be this gospel or that, written by a supposed disciple or near to be...