Yung Suk Kim,  "Race, Ethnicity and the Gospels." In Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies,  (accessed 26 Aug. 2021).   Intr...

A ccording to Qohelet (Ecclesiastes), the ideal life is not to seek the mere future or gain an immortal life elsewhere. Rather, it is in the...

Confucius's Golden Rule: Zi Gong asked: “Can you summarize with one word how we should live in our whole life? Confucius said, “Isn'...

In the Doctrine of the Mean (one of the Four Books in Confucianism), there is an important phrase that represents Confucius's main thoug...

  Where should we start as we think about human transformation? I argue that it is marginality. As I wrote a book back in 2013, A Transforma...

Many read the Bible as a single book, treating it as a metanarrative. But the Bible was written not as a single book and it is a collection ...

NRSV Eccl (Qohelet) 3:1-8 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die...

The issue is how we understand things that exist and disappear, including humans. Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) talks about this. However, many mis...

There are things we can or must do. We walk and breathe. We are responsible for our lives, working hard, and caring for others. But there ar...

I care about ancient history, literature, and culture. But what I care more about is not the past but the lives of people today, here and gl...