In my earlier post about the even newer New International Version of the Bible, I complained about how that line of translations is indifferent to metaphor, poetry, and beauty of language. I cited as an example how the new NIV renders “the valley of the
I don’t know if you noticed, but my brother Jimmy finally read my blog and commented on the State Bank post a few days ago (a topic that he alerted me to). Here is what he said: The history of the Bank of North Dakota
This is the day, 47 years ago, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated and C. S. Lewis died. Also Aldous Huxley, who wrote the prophetic dystopian novel Brave New World. So the day can be seen as something of a watershed–the end of political idealism,
Ahmed Ghailani is a terrorist who killed 224 people. But the first Guantanamo inmate to be tried in a civilian court was found not guilty of those murders, the result of his blowing up American embassies in Africa in 1998. He was, though, convicted of
Yet another bipartisan commission is proposing a plan to cut the federal deficit. What do you think of this one? From co-chairs Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin: To ensure a more robust recovery, we propose a one-year “payroll tax holiday” for 2011, suspending Social Security
Lutheran pastor’s kid Angela Merkel, now the chancellor of Germany, had some striking things to say about the immigration debate in that country: Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans debating Muslim integration to stand up more for Christian values, saying Monday the country suffered not from
I’ve been on the road, and the church I attended Sunday had as part of its Scripture reading this text: “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
Old school journalist Ted Koppel lambastes both MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, concluding with this: The commercial success of both Fox News and MSNBC is a source of nonpartisan sadness for me. While I can appreciate the financial logic of drowning television
In another odd experiment, it seems as if religious people are less susceptible to buying things according to their brand, which to secularists is often a means of enhancing status and self-worth: Prof. Ron Shachar of Tel Aviv University’s Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business
The Christmas season will mark a newly-aggressive campaign by an atheist organization to present the moral failings of the Bible: The American Humanist Association, both atheists and agnostics who think it is possible to lead a moral and ethical life without believing in a deity,
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