by Wendy Widder | Aug 10, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
My newsfeed these days is checkered with horrific stories of suffering people, many of them brothers and sisters in Christ, in the Middle East. And just when I can’t imagine how it could get any worse, the next story appears. It’s horrifying. It’s heartbreaking....
by Wendy Widder | Jul 20, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
All right. It’s time. We’ve been merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily making our way through the first half of Daniel, loving such well-told stories as the fiery furnace and the lions’ den. But the current changes when we arrive at chapter 7, and we’ll be paddling...
by Wendy Widder | Jul 6, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
I started warning you early about the second half of Daniel (and by “early” I mean within the first month of this blog’s life), and now that we’ve finally arrived, I’m reposting something I said way back then just to get things started… — I’m teaching Daniel to...
by Wendy Widder | Jun 8, 2014 | Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
Although this blog has only made it through Daniel 6, I’ve been commentary writing in Daniel 7 for weeks already. (Someone’s paying me to do that, while none of my five blog readers has sent me any money to get a new post up, already. You can see where my priorities...
by Wendy Widder | May 26, 2014 | Pain, Singleness
A recent Google Doodle reminded me that my childhood is even further away than I thought. The doodle commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube, which was brand-spankin’ new when I was, um, in grade school. The puzzle entertained my classmates and me for...
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