Picture = 1000 Words = Book?

Byhenry August 20, 2009

Here I went and wrote an entire book on the subject, and Jon Birch gets it in one picture:

Linking the Birth of Our Nation with the Birth of Our Savior

Byhenry December 23, 2010

Chuck Baldwin maintains that the birth of our Savior and the birth of our nation are closely linked. I’m afraid I don’t get it, even allowing all his facts, some of which I would dispute. I just don’t see the parallel between the guns of the revolution and the Babe of Bethlehem emptying himself of…

Christian Ministry | Christian Mission | Christianity

Missionaries and Mission

Byhenry August 9, 2006

John at Locusts and Honey called my attention to Mike Lamson’s post Getting rid of “missionary”. Many of my liberal and non-Christian friends are very surprised to discover that I’m not willing to abandon terms like “mission,” “missionary,” and “evangelism.” I think there are two potential problems with simply changing our terminology. First, we can…

Idiocy and Firing Michael Reiss

Byhenry September 17, 2008

I realize that journalists write confused stories and that headline writers produce stupid headlines to go with them, but I would think that academic or scientific organizations, irrespective of subject, should be able to be more sensible. It may not be so. “Firing” is, of course, my own overblown headline, provided you regard essentially forcing…

Christianity | Religion

Nobody is above Question

Byhenry October 12, 2013

There are two dangerous attitudes in the church, and I suspect in any human endeavor. One is the idea that certain leaders are above question. In the church the words “touch not mine anointed” (going back to the KJV, Psalm 105:15, and we could discuss the context) are often used to express this idea. This…

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The Danger of Making Things Tougher

Byhenry May 16, 2019

I don’t spend a great deal of time talking about it, but following my MA in Biblical and cognate languages, I took one quarter in a MA in Theoretical Linguistics program. I had a full ride fellowship with a stipend, but after one quarter I resigned the fellowship and headed for more interesting places and…