I don’t use parallel Bibles. In case you aren’t familiar with the term, a “side-by-side” or parallel Bible is one that has two or three or four (or, in rare cases, more) translations presented in parallel columns. Usually, at least one uses the formal/essentially-literal approach to translation and at least one uses functional/dynamic equivalence. This […]
Despite the Judeo-Christian beginnings of the United States of America, there are some Americans these days who want to silence and marginalize Christians. (See my last couple posts.) While claiming to be “tolerant”, many will use bullying tactics to do so. (I suspect I’m not telling you anything new, here.) Yet, some Christians seem to […]
Mikey Weinstein is at it again. Here’s what happened… The Marine Corps had some training scheduled for JAG reservists. One of the sessions was to be presented by Jay Lorenzen, a retired Air Force chaplain currently working with Cru. The lesson was supposed to be a “virtual battlefield tour of Gettysburg using a video from […]
The other day I (re-)discovered a comment that a reader named “Ian” had left on a blogpost of mine a couple months ago, and I had forgotten all about it. The blogpost itself was from 2011, in which I presented the “just one question” argument for the pro-life position. For a number of reasons, I […]
“[I]t is far from true that biogeography unambiguously supports common ancestry.” — Dr. Günter Bechly Biogeography is the study of the distribution of organisms across geographic space and geological time. It has been around for quite awhile but has gradually integrated concepts and information from several scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology to climatology. All “origins” […]
“God gives us freedom to grieve; he gives us freedom to be angry. But he doesn’t give us freedom to sin while we are grieving and while we are angry.” — Samuel Sey Lately, I’ve been getting caught up on some blogposts by Samuel Sey. You might remember the name, since I’ve quoted and linked […]
“Out of every 100 Americans who pulled a Bible off a shelf today, 55 of them pulled down a King James Version. I feel fairly safe in saying that the King James is the only 1611 release still on any bestseller lists.” — Mark Ward, author, blogger, software trainer A lot of people have some […]
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams, 2nd President of the United States Over the past several weeks, I have shared portions of Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope — twice from the section on Leftism and once […]
“Whether you are a person of faith or of none, you cannot escape the fact that the last six days of this man’s life, and his death, changed the world.” — Hugh Bonneville, actor A couple years ago, I came across this article about actor Hugh Bonneville (“Downton Abbey”) and the documentary he had completed: […]
“Only science gives reliable truth.” — believers in scientism Have you ever heard of a self-refuting view or idea? This is an idea that, when examined, actually defeats itself. It commits suicide. There are different types of self-refuting ideas, and some are easier to recognize than others. For example, if someone says, “All English sentences […]
