The Scriptorium Daily

Author: Fred Sanders

  • Running in Virtuous Circles: The Truth of the Bible

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    Have you ever wondered why application forms ask you to list references? I recently filled out a reference form for a friend, and as I was saying things like “this person is reliable, trustworthy, and a good judge of character,” it occurred to me that one reason I thought he was a good judge of…

  • Sermon on the Mount Comix #3: Left-Handed

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  • Dollars Have Wings (Prayer for the Offering)

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    Lord, dollars fly away. Wealth makes wings for itself. We put money where we want it put, but it doesn’t stay put. Our money blows away, rolls away, goes up in smoke, and vanishes. We try to keep control of it, but we keep finding it beyond our control. This money is not up to…

  • Sermon on the Mount Comix #2: The Law, Dude

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  • Sermon on the Mount Comix #1

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    The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew chapters 5-7) was the first passage of Scripture that ever grabbed ahold of me in a way I couldn’t ignore. In this message, Jesus breathes the pure spirit of grace even as he applies the law with a strictness that only the author of the law could accomplish. In…

  • Half A Giraffe

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    Here is a drawing of a giraffe by Phoebe Age Five. It conspicuously omits the main thing that we would expect to see in a giraffe image. Surely by its long neck shalt thou know the cameleopard; and if the neck be shortened unto vanishing, how shall it then be known? The drawing includes some…

  • How to Look at Art

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    Visiting an art museum can be a stifling experience. No matter how friendly the staff or how hospitable the building itself may be, most of us suffer from an almost palpable feeling of intimidation in a museum. Dozens of rooms with hundreds of pictures, all hung exactly at eye level and perfectly lit. You are…

  • Biola’s Founders

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    The Summer ’07 issue of Biola Connections is out, and it includes an article I wrote about the founders of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. Biola’s origins could not be more the stuff of legend if we had been founded by John Henry, Paul Bunyan and a blue ox named Babe. With giant steps,…

  • Airport Haiku

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    Here’s some cheap pseudo-haiku composed in flight this week. Accompanying it is a drawing by Freddy Age Six of a green airplane flying from left to right, with a propeller spinning and a happy pilot head sticking out. I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when be back. Oh babe. Oh. I hate to…

  • One Step Beyond Chalcedon

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    The Chalcedonian definition draws boundaries which clearly mark the limits within which orthodox thinking on the incarnation can take place. I’ve written about the greatness of Chalcedon elsewhere. But it is one thing to praise Chalcedon for doing this boundary-drawing, and another thing to say that this is all Chalcedon does. There is no need…

  • A Day in the Life of Wu Oi Ying at B.I.O.L.A.

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    In 1921, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (later Biola College, now Biola University) published a story in its magazine The King’s Business, entitled “A Day in a Bible Institute.”    The editors wanted to describe for their readers a typical day at the downtown Bible Institute at the corner of 6th and Hope. They…

  • Trinity Statue

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    The San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor is an art museum with a notable sculpture collection. It is most famous for its seventy works by Auguste Rodin, the greatest set of Rodin sculptures anywhere in the world besides the actual Musee Rodin. But the city’s collection of medieval art is also housed here,…