Where the Jobs Are Now
This book is outside of my area of expertise, but is expertly reviewed at Christian Personal Finance. I know many people are looking for this type of information.
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Biblioblog Top 50 Posted
… and I got bumped to #16, which is not surprising given how little blogging I’ve been doing lately. Come to think of it, the really surprising thing was how long I stayed in the top 10! Thanks to Jeremy for his hard work and for “more cowbells.”
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Immigration and a Police State
Does that sound too alarmist? I confess I’m always trying to find ways to write headlines that attract attention and I’m not very good at it. But I’m not sure that’s too alarmist for what’s going on in Arizona right now. I spent some time in Texas when I was in the Air Force, and…
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Fouling the Water and Trampling the Food
That’s my post today on the Worldprayr blog. It’s based on parts of Ezekiel 34.
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Review: Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Hebrews
My primary training in biblical studies placed an overwhelming emphasis on historical study. The idea was to get at the original meaning of the text as it would have been understood by those who first heard or read it. I should note that amongst my professors there was some desire to look at reception, and…
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Christian Carnival CCCXXIV Posted
… at Other Food. I like the brief comment from the editor on each post.
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How Bible Translation Should be Done
J. K. Gayle has a couple of posts on translating the Psalms that are really quite helpful. The first one I read, which is actually the second, is The Difficulty of Psalm 90, in which he discusses some thinking and feeling that may be generated by hearing the Psalm and the first one, which I…
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On Character, Discontent, and the Old Testament
I have somewhat of a tradition of reflecting somewhere on my blogs about books I am about to publish. So today I want to look at Allan R. Bevere’s new book The Character of Our Discontent. Allan is a primarily New Testament trained preacher who has decided to take on some major passages in the…
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Do You Deserve a Light or a Heavy Beating?
I’ve probably mentioned a few times that I studied under Dr. Alden Thompson at Walla Walla University (then WWC). He’s the one who taught me Hebrew, though actually I joined his class in the second year, and also introduced me to Aramaic. But more importantly, he introduced me to what I believe is a very…
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Fantasy in Death – and Reality
I recently read J. D. Robb’s Fantasy in Death and enjoyed the advanced technology. I told my wife when we had both read it that I felt that some of the technology described was at least possible and might well happen sooner than later. Well, it’s not nearly that type of capability–we’re still a long…