… at Clayboy. On the topic of the size of this carnival, allow me to give an opinion. I’m not in the current carnival. I didn’t nominate any of my posts, and not surprisingly nobody else did either. This is a good approach, I think. Use only the nominations as those of us involved in…
From Hebrews: Ancient Christian commentary on Scripture, New Testament X, p. 116, (with translation taken from A Collection of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church), commenting on Hebrews 7: Was the law then of no use? It was indeed of use and of great use, but to make humans perfect it was…
I found this in my reading of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Volume X, Hebrews, this morning. Since the translation used there is under copyright, and this is an extended quote, I’m getting the material from sacredtexts.com: As often as God’s mercy deigns to bring round the day of His gifts to us, there…
… and I think he’s right, at least about some of us. He writes in reference to graduates of Dallas Theological Seminary. After my own difficulties, though rather minor ones, with my more conservative graduate school, it annoys me that liberal schools might look down on graduates of conservative institutions.
… at least according to the Fox News headline: Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist. But there’s a problem with the headline. There are, of course, no charges for capturing the terrorists, but rather for his treatment after the capture. Now I don’t know the facts of the case beyond what is…
My company, Energion Publications, had difficulties with our hosting company, and it was traced to an apparent load created by this blog. Since it seemed top hard to convince the hosting company that a moderately successful (at best) blog such as this one would hardly be causing the difficulties they claimed, I simply chose to…
This article certainly raises some troubling issues, though I have yet to understand why one should equate ceasing to artificially sustain life with euthanasia or assisted suicide. What I wonder, however, is if the same people who are so concerned about erroneously identifying someone as in a vegetative state are similarly concerned about the possibility…
I think Ed Brayton makes the case.
Check out this cartoon at Exploring Our Matrix. I suspect it’s much easier to take things literally if you don’t actually have to do anything about them!
I’m quite late on this one, for which I apply the preselected excuse that I have been very busy. I first noticed the change in name and the upgrade of the software when I upgraded my Ubuntu installation from 9.04 to 9.10. Then today I found a post on Xiphos at futurebible.org, and so I…