After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations by Christopher R. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars I hope to write a publishable review of this book in the future. I’ll just take this Goodreads/blogging opportunity to offer some of my favorite...
Mark Ward
Greenville Just Misses Top-Ten Spot for Bible-Minded Cities
If Barna hadn't paired us up with those crunchy leftists in Asheville, we would have been number 1, I know it! Check out the full list of Bible-Minded Cities. Looking at the obvious trends on the list reminds me of a book I heard about on NPR, The Big Sort: Why the...
Review: Is There Anybody Out There?: A Journey from Despair to Hope
Is There Anybody Out There?: A Journey from Despair to Hope by Mez McConnell My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed watching God's amazing grace change this drug-addicted burglar and all-around street tough. I listened to him give his testimony in an interview...
The Pay-Off of a New Bible Format
The point of my somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Bible Typography Manifesto" is to encourage better and more healthy Bible reading practices by rethinking the format in which we encounter God's word. To that end, I'm reading a book by Christopher Smith called After Chapters...
An Amazing Testimony from the Author of a Must-Read Book
The Proper Order of Aesop’s Fables
For the last four years, the Bible and theology department at Wheaton College in Illinois has studied the biblical and theological literacy of incoming freshmen. These students are intellectually ambitious and spiritually passionate. They represent almost every...
Why Study the Biblical Languages
Ironically, technology has made study of the biblical languages both easier and less likely (technology giveth; technology taketh away). In my own experience, I can say it was very difficult to push myself to master the Hebrew verb states (or stems; i.e., Niphal,...
Weekly Standard on Christian Thinker/Journalist Ken Myers
[Ken Myers] has big plans for the next few years, with a particular attention to music. He’s planning a series of podcasts on the standard classical repertoire—one piece per podcast—and another on sacred choral music, which he’s pursuing with a special ardor. “I...
Moisés Silva on the Hermeneutical Spiral
Moisés Silva's essay in Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics offers a somewhat startling thesis: "My theological system should tell me how to exegete." (86) Many exegetes profess to come to the text sans system, but Silva argues that because this...
Favoritism Is Good? Fish!!
Does anyone even read my Stanley Fish links? Anyone? Earth to anyone! Because now Fish has taken a long enough break from revealing everyone else's presuppositions to reveal one of his own, and I think that's pretty interesting. Have a listen. [The liberal notion of...