Years ago, a college classmate provocatively announced that he planned to name his first son “after the most maligned figure in the entire Torah: Esau.” Let’s consider Esau’s defense. After we are ...

Esau McCaulley is an associate professor of the New Testament at Wheaton College, the author of God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible, and the host of the Esau McCaulley Podcast.

Esau McCaulley has been caught between multiple identities his whole life. Family legend has it that his grandfather couldn’t read, and when it came time to pick a baby name for McCaulley’s father, ...