Is it easier to define your social world using negatives or positives? In other words, is it more important to establish your group by...

We human beings can't seem to escape our natural affinity for hierarchies, pecking orders, in- and out-groups, us-versus-them and general...

There's more than one way to see the Good News. Ever heard of an exophytic complex cyst adjacent to the splenic dome? Unless you're a...

Let's test your familiarity with the Christmas tradition we call Advent. So as not to leave any readers in the dark, I have provided the...

Every year at Thanksgiving we gather with a small group of college friends. As the years go by, our little group grows and changes with...

Don't read this spoken word piece by Matt Kistler unless you want inspiration for your journey through this season of change at CCF. What...

There once was a book called the Bible But some people labeled it libel "Why?" you may ask It was taken to task For promoting a God who's...

We stay at the table. This is one of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship's core values. It may sound simple, but a little unpacking reveals...

Here we finish off our series on some of the different flavors of hermeneutics with a brief survey of three more major schools of...

Like most things involving human communication, the spectrum of hermeneutic lenses is a complex and fascinating subject. As we have seen...

Don't expect your meeting at a Venezuelan coffee shop to start on time. It's rude to expect anything less than 15 minutes past the...

The Great Isaiah Scroll, part of the collection of documents discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls trove is 23 feet long and contains 54...

"On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!” Quoth the Raven...

Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word that describes the process we use to derive meaning from a set of data, particularly from a written text. More simply, its the study of interpretation .* Rendering one's thoughts into language, recording and sending it off to elicit similar thoughts in the minds of receivers at various distances from its origin is not a simple process. Hermeneutics focuses on the receiving end where understanding and interpretation take place. Our English ter

Deconstruction is a contemporary buzzword in Christendom, and like all buzzwords, it has taken on a life of its own well beyond the...

Rhetoric… So what? What are the implications for us, modern readers of the Gospel of John? And what might be of value in applying ancient...

It has been suggested that the gospel of John is organized similarly to a Ciceronian argument in a court of law (Cicero was a well known...

While only a few privileged denizens of antiquity had access to an education in rhetoric, nearly everyone experienced it in some way as...

Would you build a theological doctrine on a peroration element? Hopefully, you'd think twice since the peroration is all about an...

So you want to convince a judge, jury or marketplace crowd to support your policy, vote for your candidate or find your client not...