Keanan Fischer

The English Bible we hold in our hands today came at the cost of those who risked and even gave their lives so God’s Word could be read in our own language. Before 1300 A.D., church services in Western Europe were conducted primarily in Latin. Portions of Scripture had been translated into Old English—usually from the Latin Vulgate—but were used mainly for study or devotion by clergy rather than distributed among common people. The only English Bible before William Tyndale was the handwritten...

Last weekend I was at my parents’ place building a stall for our foals we need to start working with. As I was putting it together and thinking through what would make halter-breaking them easier, I remembered an old technique—tying a young horse to a donkey. It actually works well, though I feel bad for the poor donkey, being tied to another animal that pulls and fights for hours. As I was reflecting on how donkeys are often used for such difficult tasks, my mind went to a couple of passages...

The secular world often seeks to dismiss the Bible and its claims, portraying many of its accounts as fictional stories—such as the Exodus. Secularists frequently argue that if this significant event truly occurred, there should be evidence outside of Scripture to support it, and that no such evidence exists. Today, however, I would like to share the Ipuwer Papyrus, a document that appears to stand in direct contrast to that claim. The Ipuwer Papyrus appears to be an eyewitness account from...