Category: Babylon

  • A Champion to His People

    A Champion to His People

    Bullies, unfortunately, are a common childhood experience—the strong picking on the weak. They ridicule, they intimidate, they terrorize, they exploit, they abuse. However, bullies are a fragile lot.

  • Mystery Revealed

    Mystery Revealed

    As human beings we tend to marvel at the wrong things. We marvel at what we see while the qualities and character that are unseen are overlooked.

  • The Mask Comes Off

    The Mask Comes Off

    John appears to introduce a new character into his narrative—the great prostitute—until we notice that on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”

  • Good News in an Unlikely Form

    Good News in an Unlikely Form

    At the junior high school where I once taught math, the class before lunch was not dismissed by the bell. Rather, each classroom was dismissed to the cafeteria on a staggered schedule. On consecutive days late in the school year I dismissed my class …