I just went on a little adventure with latitude and longitude. I had a bunch of coordinates in full form for the BJU Press Bible Truths D Teacher's Edition: 33º 40' 44.98" N 30' 24' 58.61" E But neither Google Earth nor Google Maps reads these full form coordinates,...
Mark Ward
Installing Logos Resources Without a Lot of Rigmarole
I just bought the Theological Journal Library, vols. 1-10. I had 1-8, so the upgrade only cost me 80 bucks or so direct from Galaxie Software. Great resource. I find I use the book reviews a lot, and frequently I avoid a trip to the library by looking up a citation on...
A Unabomber Victim Speaks Out
(Ok, this post isn't what you're thinking based on the title, but I thought it might grab your interest. Gelerntner was a Unabomber victim.) David Gelerntner, professor of computer science at Yale, has just written a great article on the generic "he" and all its...
What Bible(s) Will I Give My Kids?
My fiancée thinks it's a bit amusing (but also sweet, she'd say) that I think so often about this, but I really do: What Bible(s) will I give my kids? Let's tick through the options: KJV: I want them to be familiar with it for its cultural value (both in American...
A Little Benefit From The Books of the Bible, TNIV
I'm almost done with Deuteronomy now in my now-not-so-new-looking TNIV edition, The Books of the Bible. I'm enjoying reading the Bible unencumbered by chapter and verse divisions. One little benefit has come up now several times in my reading of the Pentateuch: I'm...
Why Don’t More Conservatives Get Ph.D.’s?
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education mentions some of the findings from a study done by a mixed-political-affiliation couple asking why conservatives don't get Ph.D.'s as often as liberals. The couple, Matthew Woessner and April Kelly-Woessner issued their...
Theological Scholarship in Fundamentalism
Kevin Bauder recently wrote a series of articles for his "In the Nick of Time" column "Fundamentalism and Scholarship." This paragraph stood out to me as one of the key areas of my own weakness: If we want to produce theological scholars, then we must provide training...
All Things to All People
The largest Anglican church in Canada has pulled out of the national church and put itself under the authority of a parallel conservative body. The "tipping point" was their diocese's support of same-sex blessings, but I was very pleased with this National Post...
Textual Optimism
In my previous post on Textual Optimism: A Critique of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament by Kent W. Clarke (part of the JSNT monograph series now edited by Stanley Porter), I summarized some of Clarke's statistics on the general upgrade from D to C, C to...
Avery Cardinal Dulles
What is the Catholic view of salvation? Not all Catholics agree, and, sadly, the great majority of Catholics I have met simply do not know what their church's (official) view is. But Avery Dulles, S.J., a cardinal and a professor of religion at (Jesuit) Fordham...