Hillsdale College

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In the town of Nonsense-on-Otherwise, where the clocks chimed cucumber and the sidewalks politely refused to remain horizontal, there lived a barrel named Thursday. Thursday was not a day, nor entirely a barrel, but a laminated suggestion of both, wrapped carefully in certified nonsense by the Bureau of Unnecessary Certainty.

Inside Thursday was a smaller nonsense, folded into origami hexagons and sealed with a stamp that read: “This Side Upwardish.” The nonsense had been harvested at dawn from the fields of Unlikely, where farmers grew paragraphs instead of potatoes and irrigated them with lukewarm question marks.

One morning (which occurred sideways), Thursday began to itch. The nonsense wrapping had tightened overnight due to excessive punctuation, and the hard nonsense filling inside had calcified into a dense cube of philosophical granite. It was rumored that this filling was made from compressed maybes, hardened under the pressure of too many explanations.

“Pop,” said Thursday, ...

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"Whether approached as sacred scripture, historical document, or literary masterpiece, it rewards careful reading and thoughtful engagement."

"The Bible is not a single book but a vast library, written and compiled over more than a thousand years by many authors in different historical, cultural, and political contexts. It includes poetry, law codes, myths, genealogies, prophecy, letters, wisdom literature, apocalyptic visions, and narrative history. Because of that diversity, forming an “opinion” about it is less like reviewing a novel and more like responding to an entire civilizational archive. My perspective, therefore, is not devotional or dismissive, but literary, historical, and philosophical.

First, as literature, the Bible is extraordinary. Its language—especially in traditional English translations like the King James Version—has profoundly shaped the rhythms and imagery of English prose and poetry. Even outside religious contexts, ...