Via Wayne Leman from Better Bibles Blog pointed out some excellent statements on translation from Michael Burer of the NET Bible. Here are the points: Just because something has always been translated a certain way does not mean that it is correct. We should always value the light ancient documents shed on our understanding of [...]
Currently pondering the significance of Jesus' body being taken by Joseph of Arim. versus the alternative: being tossed into Gehenna. # Weather.com finally gets it right: http://twitpic.com/8sg5d # Oooh. Checked our mail stash and we just received the July Voice of the Martyrs mag! (see @VOMC) # holding baby and researching intentional communities (IC), in [...]
And I wanted to share a story of exemplary freedom and independence. ‘The opinions for which men go to war,’ he said, ‘do not deserve those great tragedies of which they make us spectators. Let there be no longer any question among us of Zwinglians or Lutherans, for neither Zwingle nor Luther died for us, [...]
Not long after the Diet of Worms and the subsequent Edict in 1521, Augustinian monks Johann van den Esschen (Johannes Esch) and Hendrik Vos (Heinrich Voes), sympathetic to Luther and his teachings, were taken captive and branded for execution. On 1 July 1523, van den Esschen and Vos were burned at the stake. They are [...]
Therefore make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is nothing better than peace, by which all warfare among those in heaven and those [...]
This letter from Sister Helen Prejean is positively stellar. Writing to the California Department of Corrections on a recent proposal, she made wonderfully and graphically clear how depraved we can be as humans. She urged California to KEEP THE WINDOW OPEN during the administration of the poisonous chemicals and as the person is dying as [...]
Thanks to the help of a brother I’ve been reading through Edward Fudge’s The Fire That Consumes. No, I don’t need help reading; he’s graciously allowed me to borrow the book (he’s also let me borrow the Fudge and William Peterson dialogue, Two Views of Hell: A Biblical & Theological Dialogue). On page 48 I [...]
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Clever. But, more importantly, will Christians who currently support either terror or harsh interrogation, especially those who do not consider something like waterboarding torture, take a minute and reflect?
Interesting. Will have a peek. RT @smashingmag: HTML5 Gallery – http://tr.im/owUu – A showcase of sites using html5 markup # you've got to be kidding me! Seriously? # RT @living3368: RT multiple sources: "140 characters is a novel when you're being shot at." #iranelection # RT @VOMC: Foreigners abducted and killed in Yemen http://tinyurl.com/mbcdl3 # [...]
