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When Neutrality isn’t Neutral

The news of Chris Comer’s suit against the Texas Education Administration claiming she was forced out illegally should come as no surprise to anyone. The reasoning behind the dismissal clearly silly, and the explanations did not ring true as the real reasons she was asked to resign. But as a moderate who likes to see…

NLT has a Blog

Wayne Leman at Better Bibles Blog notes that there is now a blog for the NLT. I note with pleasure that the first post deals in a very balanced way with the widespread belief that dynamic equivalence translation is the same thing as paraphrasing.  (One should note that in this case “paraphrasing” is not used…

Religious Attitudes and Worship Styles

One thing I have observed over the years is that relatively few debates in church congregations center around serious theological issues. A few are about administrative and financial issues, but there is nothing like the order of worship to produce an angry debate. Some congregations spend years fighting over things like whether one should raise…

Word Order and Thinking Order

There’s a new study out dealing with word order that’s fairly interesting. I’m just going to link to a post on this, other than to note that there are a number of serious questions in interpretation. The post is at Not Exactly Rocket Science, which I will add to my blogroll. Here’s the conclusion: Goldin-Meadow’s…

Christian Carnival Plug

It’s time to start thinking about submitting for the next Christian Carnival which will be hosted at Crossroads.  The submission form is at http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_1551.html.  Submissions are due Tuesday night by midnight each week.  The upcoming hosting schedule is at Parableman.

Trust the Executive Branch?

Liberals tend to trust the government to do right in social spending. Conservatives tend to trust the government on security issues. I’d suggest we do neither. It seems some appeals court judges agree. Allowing agents of the executive branch to simply declare someone outside the court system is ridiculous. I have a hard time understanding…

The Loom Moves

Carl Zimmer is a great science writer, and he will now be a columnist for Discover Magazine. Accordingly, his blog, The Loom, has moved there.

Donny Pauling on Jesus for President

There have been a number of articles on the book, the rallies, and the fact that evangelicals may no longer be a lock for either major party. As a long time independent (I switched from Republican to independent before the 1984 election after having been a Reagan activist in 1980), I am following the change…

Looking for a Good Sermon?

OK, I’m blogging on a Sunday morning before I go to church, but I will use as my excuse the fact that I get up substantially earlier than the world, or so it seems, and thus I do reading and such well before it’s time to go to church. I expect to hear an excellent…