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I love Thomas. I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite apostle but, were that challenge put before me, I would most likely choose the one many call “The Doubter.”
His name means “twin” but there is no mention of who his twin was or what their life was like. That has, of course, caused [...]

Good question! As soon as he is listed among the apostles… he disappears and is never mentioned in the New Testament again! As a boy, I always thought that, if I were an apostle, I would probably be Bartholomew — good enough to make the team but not good enough to play. But I digress…
There [...]

Some of you correctly pointed out that the stories of Philip the Apostle (usually known as Saint Philip) seemed to be the same stories told about Philip the Evangelist (sometimes, especially in the Orthodox Church, called the Protodeacon). I thought a few more paragraphs might be in order to explain the confusion even though it [...]

NOTE: by mistake, I posted “Whatever Happened to John?” over at Tentpegs. For those who don’t read that column regularly, you can find it in the links at the right side of this page. Sorry!
If you were going to gather a group of disciples, you wouldn’t have done it the way Jesus did. Alongside the [...]

Jesus had a small inner circle of friends — Peter, James, and John. Of the three, James is the least known. Perhaps that is because he was the first of the apostles to be martyred. For our purposes, that makes the “whatever happened to…” part of this a lot easier; only Judas and James have [...]

Andrew was from Capernaum just like his brother, Peter. He was born in Bethsaida on the north side of the Sea of Galilee, twenty five miles east of Nazareth. We know that he was one of the first to leave his nets and follow John the Baptist. When John baptized Jesus (John 1), Andrew had [...]

I am staying away from the news for a week or so. That is hard for me to do as I am a news and XM radio junkie, but the Messiah-like tone of this week’s proceedings are just too much for me to take. And, yes, that would be my attitude if this were McCain, [...]

The snow is too thick and the roads are too icy to go anywhere this afternoon or this evening. I’ve studied all I have to study for the moment and I’ve read until my eyes are tired. That means… it’s time for the guitars to come out to play.
On days like today I fight melancholy [...]

The snow has started outside and that might change everything. Three to six inches is forecast to fall on the foot of snow we already have out there, but I thought it wasn’t supposed to show up until tonight… just in time to disrupt tomorrow’s worship schedule.
This afternoon — Lord and weather willing — Duncan [...]

I used to have two or three books on the right hand side of my blog to show you what I was reading. For the last couple of months that application hasn’t worked so the section has been blank. No big loss, I’m sure, but I thought I’d give you a quick update on what [...]