Biblical Studies Carnival #45 Posted

Byhenry September 1, 2009

… at The Golden Rule, Bible Theme Park edition. Lots of good stuff here, and despite my usual delinquency in submitting anything, I got a link in there.

Christianity | Lectionary | Religion

Psalm 122: On Praying for Both Israelis and Palestinians
Byhenry November 26, 2013
Bruce Epperly, in his comments on the scriptures for the first Sunday in Advent at Process & Faith, has a note about praying for Jerusalem. The call for this is made in the Psalm for this first Sunday in Advent, 122. Bruce notes: “I was glad when they said unto me let us go unto…
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Bible Study Tools | Bible Translation | Christianity

A Misuse of the Word LITERAL
Byhenry April 10, 2011
One of my pet peeves is the way “literal” is used in discussing biblical interpretation. The problem is not just that the word has changed meaning; rather, it is now scattered all over the map. “Literal” comes to mean anything from “seriously” to “severely out of context” much more often than it means “literal as…
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Christian Mission | Christianity | Religion

When Fear Drives
Byhenry November 21, 2014
Recently the topic of risk and danger has come up in several discussions of Christian Ministry. Shauna Hyde, who I interviewed along with Chris Surber, has spent the night in tent town with homeless folks and earned the informal title “vicar of tent town.” People have told her she’s crazy. But she manages to live…
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Christian Ministry | Christianity | United Methodist Church

The Need for Church Politics
Byhenry February 4, 2008
No, I’m not talking about the church getting involved in politics in general, nor about politicians speaking in church. I’m talking about the politics that goes into actually running the church. There’s a great deal of politics involved in the way churches are governed. But I’m not going to call for less–I’m going to call…
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Christianity | Education | Religious Education

Congratulations to Houston Baptist University
Byhenry July 30, 2009
… on their new Master of Arts in Biblical Languages. In growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church I got used to the idea that in order to teach Bible or become a pastor one started studying theology/religion at the undergraduate level and then continued at the graduate level with the fundamentals out of the…
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Christianity | Creation and Evolution | Intelligent Design | Science Education

Distortion Not Good for Faith
Byhenry May 27, 2007
I blogged previously about the Answers in Genesis creation museum that’s going up in Kentucky in How to Waste $25 Million. Now the museum is about to be opened, and they held special events for the true believers yesterday. This museum is a monument to the desire to avoid scientific evidence and to present an…
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