From My Bookshelf

Oct
27

Early English Bible Translation (again)

I recently became the proud owner of Hendrickson’s Geneva Bible facsimile and, in the introduction, Lloyde E. Berry observes,
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Aug
06

When the "love partner becomes the divining ideal"

I was listening to Barton and Sarah Stone teach the students on gender and sexuality, and one of the resources
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Jul
16

Niebuhr on The Reason Why Cultures are Threatened by Christianity

I’m reading H Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture and I think he captures the conflict quite well in
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Mar
03

Why Canonical Discussions Are So Dang Hard

Due mostly to the fact that there have been a lot of questions about it, there has been a spike
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Feb
26

The Long Tradition of Christian Scholarship

We talk a lot about scholarship and the call to academic excellence. I think it’s important to note that,
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Sep
11

Refuting a Sneer

I’ve long been impressed by William Paley’s rhetorical questions, “Who can refute a sneer?” And I finally found
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Jun
14

Appreciate What We Have

We’re going back through John McRay’s Paul: His Life and Teaching in school and I came across this
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Jan
22

Smith on How "We Need to Initiate a Change"

For a college assignment last week (did I mention I’m back in college? More on that later), we were
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Jan
15

Sun Tzu on "A Victory That Is Long in Coming"

I picked up Ralph D. Sawyer’s translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War (you got to love a
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Oct
11

How Not to Write an Argument

With the new school year in full swing and so many speech and debate students trying to figure out the
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