by Mathew Swora | Aug 15, 2018
In what has to be one of history’s most poignant, trenchant ironies, yesterday’s report from a grand jury in Pennsylvania about decades of sexual abuse by predatory priests, and of cover-ups in high ecclesiastical offices, was released on the same day that Roman...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 14, 2018
If the Bible stopped at Daniel Chapter 11, we would not hear the songs that Bethel Mountain Band is going to sing. I don’t know what they’d sing about instead: maybe chicken soup or halibut fishing. Their next songs, however, are about eternal life, heaven, whatever...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 10, 2018
I didn’t realize until this week that their graves are in the foreground every time I look out the window of my office toward Mt. Hood. But after reading about Edd and Alice Yoder in the recently-published book, In The Hollow of God’s Hand, by their granddaughter,...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 7, 2018
You know about those parts of the Bible that are very hard to read, because they’re so full of details like Who begat who? and how this kind of sacrifice or ritual is to be carried out, and how that curtain is to be made and how many rings it is to hang from? So that...
by Mathew Swora | Jul 31, 2018
From Ezra 8: 21-36 “You as well as these articles are consecrated to the Lord…. Guard them carefully until you weigh them out in the chambers of the house of the Lord.” Ezra 8: 28-29a This is not a very familiar passage from a very familiar part of the Bible. So, who...
