Word Ambiguities
HT: Language Log
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Christian Carnival CCCXL Posted
… at The Jevlir Caravansary. Check it out!
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Christian Carnival Coming
I’m hosting it at my Jevlir Caravansary blog. Deadline is midnight tonight.
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List of Online Lexicons
Polycarp has a very useful list of online lexicons.
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Gordon Fee on Reading Revelation
… and the Bible as a whole, but with a focus on his new commentary on Revelation. The video is at the Grace Communion International web site and is well worth watching. I would probably be a bit harder on the idea of literal interpretation for the Bible overall than Dr. Fee is, but he…
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On C. S. Lewis
There’s an article in the Touchstone archives by Bishop Wright which I find very interesting, largely because it expresses some of my own feelings regarding Lewis. C. S. Lewis is, of course, a brilliant writer. I enjoy reading even those things with which I disagree, and not just because I like to be challenged. He…
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Gordon Fee Discusses Interpreting Revelation
… in this video, which has been all over the biblioblogosphere. Sorry, I don’t even remember where I first saw it.
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PNJ Picks 2 for Governor
Our local excuse for the press, the Pensacola News Journal, is in endorsements season, and like many papers, they pick one in each of the primaries. Thus they have endorsed one Republican and one Democrat for governor. I should note first that I have a problem with newspapers or media organizations endorsing politicians. I don’t…
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Boycott BP – Maybe Not!
I live on the Gulf Coast, but I’ve continued to go to BP gas stations. Yes, I deplore what has happened, and the negligence involved, though I think our national push for more and cheaper oil is an underlying cause of the problem. But I hadn’t blogged about it. Allan Bevere did so on his…
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Quote of the Day – Passives
From Language Log: If passives were UFOs, the country would be frantic over all the sightings, but the Air Force wouldn’t be scrambling any jets. I have two pet peeves with regard to passives. First, there are those who find passives where there are none, as in the post cited by Language Log. Second, there…