by Larry Greenfield | Dec 23, 2009 | Opinion
Last year at around this time (Dec. 27, 2008, to Jan. 18, 2009), there was again a massive attack against Palestinian people by a ruling power, this time in the Gaza Strip, based again on what was seen as a threat to its security (not, by common consensus, a threat to...
by Larry Greenfield | Dec 22, 2009 | Opinion
Good thing the son of elderly Elizabeth and Zechariah – commonly known as John the Baptist – was born in a “Judean town in the hill country” (Luke 1:39) and not “in and around Bethlehem” (Matthew 2:16). Otherwise, pregnant Elizabeth would have...
by Larry Greenfield | Dec 4, 2009 | Opinion
A friend remarked the other day that 90 percent of the American population couldn’t hear anything someone said to them. It was an unscientific and unsubstantiated observation. To be sure, it had little to do with the physical loss of hearing. The best estimates...
by Larry Greenfield | Nov 11, 2009 | Opinion
You have to wonder what would have happened if Eli the priest hadn’t delivered. He had plenty of reasons to pay no attention to the woman praying at the edge of the temple. It appeared that the woman had been imbibing a little too much wine. That’s what...
by Larry Greenfield | Oct 30, 2009 | Opinion
When Jesus threatens to open up the tomb where his beloved friend, Lazarus, had been placed, the dead man’s sister, Martha, objects. She had pleaded for Jesus to come to their home in Bethany while brother Lazarus still clung to life, but Jesus had dithered away...
