There are some arts that have been lost, none more than diagramming sentences. Some have already clicked to another blog, others have said “You idiot, diagramming isn’t an art, it’s mind-numbing nonsense!” I beg to differ, but I get to my differ from a different angle. I, too, hated diagramming sentence in junior and senior high. The sticks and rules just bored me into mental stupors. But then I had Dr John Wilson who, instead of diagramming with sticks and... Read more
But it is Still Very Interesting… The Higgs Boson has been making the news lately – the “discovery” of the particle at 125-126 GeV was reported last week following analysis of data obtained in the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. It is not the God Particle, and the observation has little, if anything, to do with the interface of science and faith. In fact all it really does is give more confidence... Read more
This post is by professor of theology at Vose Seminary, Michael O’Neil. Baptists and the Bible 1 In January 2009, an international group of Baptist scholars gathered in Cardiff, U.K. to explore the theory and practice of Baptist hermeneutics; the result of their meeting was an excellent collection of essays published by Mercer University Press The “Plainly Revealed” Word of God: Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice. The essays examine how Baptists have used and interpreted Scripture, how they have... Read more
Carol Saller, from The Chronicle: Here are the issues my colleagues and I spend the most time on in the main text, in reverse order of how much labor they require. 10. Spacing. Although unwanted spaces are surely the most pervasive blemish, I spend little time fixing them, because my cleanup macro does it for me. In one go, the macro eliminates thousands of spaces before and after hard returns and dashes, spaces between paragraphs, double spaces after a period,... Read more
Kris and I have been married going on 40 years, and I would contend that women’s bodies are warmer — that she likes the home warmer than do I. But this study says that’s not true. What say you? Holding a body close to you, it’s easy to appreciate the warmth a human body can generate. Humans are “warm-blooded” animals. We’re able to effectively maintain a stable internal temperature, even on cold mornings or hot afternoons. This thermo-regulation is a... Read more
This post is by Stephen Spence, Dean at Tabor Adelaide. Acts 15, a Model Church Meeting I would have started out on the wrong side of the greatest debate in the history of the church! I just hope that I would have had the good grace to end up on God’s side by the end of the debate. Do we get to “discern” the way the apostles did? Do we sometimes go “beyond the Bible” to live out the Bible?... Read more
Mike Nappa did a survey of 845 Christian teenagers, The Jesus Survey, and asked them if Jesus was raised from the dead, that is, if he came back to life. Once again, Nappa makes statements, provides answers from strongly agree to strongly disagree, and then plots the results. He also seeks to probe the issue from a positive affirmation to a negative denial in order to confirm the reliability of the first question. How do you read these numbers and... Read more
Roger Cohen: LONDON — Let’s say a few unsayable things. It’s worth doing because no Middle East peace is going to be built on coy evasions, competitive victimhood or wishful thinking.The first unsayable thing is that there is no “right of return” in history. Life moves on; it does not double back. Turks are not returning to Greece. Greeks are not going back to Turkey. Germans are not going back to Wroclaw and Gdansk. Jews are not returning to Baghdad,... Read more
I like the idea — some of that stuff is just too sharp and smelly and, sheesh, it makes my eyes water and nose wince. Tuttle, Okla., warns on its website and in signs that visitors to City Hall must “remain at the front of the building” if they’re wearing fragrances. “Every now and then, you get some people who think it’s stupid,” says City Manager Tim Young, but fragrance-free air is a relief for allergy sufferers. Portland, Ore., banned fragrance... Read more
From a friend, a pastor of a megachurch, George Davis, in Hershey PA. As a pastor of a larger church, I read with interest your recent posts discussing whether a megachurch pastor is really a “pastor.” I appreciated your response stressing the presence of multiple pastors in a congregation. However, I wonder if there isn’t an underlying question that needs to be brought to the surface. Namely, what is the nature of pastoral ministry? What does it mean to “shepherd”... Read more
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