When I was a little boy, my Grandma and Grandpa bought a book of Bible Stories for me to read while I was sick. That book of Bible Stories was very common in the mid-sixties and it became very precious to me, keeping it for years after. I suppose the reason I liked it so…

  One of the things that seems to be trendy in literary theory is the idea that a book is open to interpretation by the reader, and that the intention of the author is unimportant or unknowable. While I agree that often any writing, especially fiction, can take on a life of its own, since…

Saw this conversation on The Gospel Coalition between  DA “Don” Carson and Ligon Duncan about the difference between Exegesis and Exposition while communicating the scriptures to a congregation. Carson and Duncan on Moving from Exegesis to Exposition It’s a nearly one hour conversation and know many of you don’t have time to listen to the…

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, mostly because I’ve had less time to write. Today I found a piece from Scientific American on artists who use mathematical equations as a source for their art. As I written in a previous post, these kinds of things seem almost indisputable to me to be evidence for the…

Recently read a bit of C.S. Lewis’s, “Meditations in a tool shed”, most especially the beginning in which C.S. Lewis describes his observation of a sunbeam in a shed. “I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside, and through the crack at the top of the door there came a…

I think many, if not most, boys of my generation collected Comic books when they were kids. Everyone had their favorite, mine were somewhat like the title to my blog, eclectic. I liked primarily The Incredible Hulk and Richey Rich but also Archie and Jughead, the Fantastic Four and a few others. I didn’t really…

I’ve attempted to write a several different posts about Christians in politics. As I wrote earlier, a simple definition of politics is decision-making in a group or organizational setting, which means I am considering politics in a broader scope than just national or state governmental politics. I intended to write about the various groups in…

I think many, if not most people, have had friends and acquaintances who have experienced divorce express the lament that they married too young. The feeling often is that the couple married when they were still relatively immature and either picked the wrong person to marry, or weren’t ready for the rigors of marriage, and…

In an earlier post this week I wrote about the breadcrumbs I’ve seen that seem to lead to God. I want to explore those trails in further posts, but I think the first thing I’d like to consider is, why is the trail of breadcrumbs there are at all? What is the point of it?…

I renamed my blog “the Eclectic Christian” a few months back for several reasons, some I stated when I renamed it, others I didn’t. In the subtitle of the blog you will find the main reason, “Musings of a curious Christian”. I am by nature a very curious person, and always have been. If you…