From the Scriptorium
September 12, 2026
Why Elijah Has No Genealogy, No Father's Name, No Backstory
Every major figure in the Old Testament arrives with a lineage attached. Elijah simply arrives.
September 8, 2026
What It Actually Looked Like to Be a Teenager Taken Captive to Babylon
A forced march, a new name built from a foreign god, and a boy with almost nothing left to say no to.
September 5, 2026
Why Matthew Calls Her "Canaanite" Instead of Mark's "Syrophoenician"
Both writers describe her accurately. One of them chose a word loaded with a thousand years of history.
September 5, 2026
What "Behold the Hand, Behold the Nail" Means in the Name YHWH
Long before Hebrew letters were sounds, they were pictures, and God's own name may carry one of them.
September 5, 2026
Why 40 Authors Across 15 Centuries Never Contradicted Each Other
A king, a fisherman, a tax collector, and a shepherd, none of whom ever met, and one continuous story.
September 5, 2026
Daniel in Babylon: Faith Without a Single Miracle for Years
Long before the lions' den, a teenager taken captive drew one small line on his very first year in a foreign court, and just kept holding it.
September 3, 2026
Behind the Cover: Designing BEHOLD's Title Page
Every letter on the cover of BEHOLD is doing the same work the book is, a quick look at why the design turned out the way it did.
September 1, 2026
The Hidden Prophecy Behind God's Own Name
A letter pair every English Bible leaves untranslated, hiding in the first verse of Genesis, and what it reveals about the name of God.
August 31, 2026
5 Things Genesis Never Tells Us About Lot's Wife
Her father's name, her daughters, and the biggest surprise: how far she actually got before she turned.
August 28, 2026
Writing the Woman Who Never Speaks: Lot's Wife in Salt
She's never named in Genesis, so I named her, hid it from the reader, and quietly tied her story to Ruth's.
August 25, 2026
Quick Trivia: Which Church Age Sounds Like Today?
A two-minute checklist from Revelation 3, see which church age sounds like a church you've actually sat in.
August 22, 2026
The Church Ages: Why Seven, Why These Seven Messengers
Seven stars in the right hand of Christ, seven ages of church history, and the seven men held to carry them.
August 19, 2026
One Verse, One Minute: 1 Kings 19:12
A sixty-second close read of the verse at the center of Elijah's story, and the Hebrew word most translations soften.
August 16, 2026
Elijah's Silence: What God Didn't Say on the Mountain
Revisiting the still small voice, and what the silence itself was actually saying.
August 13, 2026
3 Manuscript Facts Readers Find Surprising
A quick companion piece to Monday's post, short, sharp, and worth the two-minute read.
August 10, 2026
Why the Bible's Manuscript Evidence Still Holds Up
A look at what actually survives from antiquity, and why it matters more than most readers realize.