Author Archives: thethirdhelix

This article is a follow-up to a recent episode of the Mount Hermeneutics podcast in which we tackled the question of “What Did Jesus Teach?” On the show, we frequently critique and correct what we regard to be the many … Continue reading →

Imagine going to a wedding, and everyone is celebrating and happy and there is a palpable feeling of joy and love in the air at what is about to occur: the joining of two people for the start of a … Continue reading →

I’m always told that I have a great “testimony.” A “testimony,” of course, being the account of a Christian’s conversion – how we “came to know the Lord.”   And, not to brag, but as “testimonies” go, mine is a … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity, Part 0 “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” wrote our second president of the United States, John Adams. If we read … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 3 If the entire biblical narrative had to be summed up in one scene, one concept, one tidy parable that boiled everything down to its purest, most vital essence, it would be the picture of … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 3 It’s a recurring theme in heroic fantasy, and in comic books in particular: he is an unassuming nobody, apt to be dismissed and ignored, as there is nothing appealing about him, no great talent … Continue reading →

At long last, the new Batman movie is out. And it sucks. Of course, all my friends are rolling their eyes right now, because I’m known to be pretty hard on movies – particularly, big cultural-event movies, like massively hyped … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 2 My last article was about how Christians just don’t follow, nor even actually read the Bible. We think we do, but we don’t. We’re indoctrinated into a certain set of assumptions about what it … Continue reading →