Stop Pounding the Table, Al! Or Get out of the Race!

In law school, the professors instruct their litigators in training to do the following: “When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When the law is on your side, argue the law. When neither is on your side, pound the table.” Apparently state prosecutor Al...

Judges 19 — Still More "Right in Their Eyes"

For the moment, I believe that the Levite mentioned in Judges 19 is the same Levite who was elevated in the flesh by the spoiled brat Micah. The account in Judges 19 is so depressing, controversial, and disturbing, that in one high school the principal ripped the...

Judges 17 – The Land of "Right in One's Own Eyes"

Following the death of Samson, the judge of Israel destroyed the Philistines after he coveted a strange woman, Delilah, and lost his hair, his strength, and his reputation before God and man, the Book of Judges takes a turn from bad to worse, at least...