Review: After Chapters & Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations
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 quotes and insights from it. I do have a few minor criticisms, but I’m not going to bother with them in this forum. This is an excellent book that is the fruit of some careful and diligent work. Modernity introduced ... [a]...
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 Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart.
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 with Mark Dever some time ago. The book offered even more edifying and instructive detail. Of course, it is also hilarious to watch someone from a totally different culture encounter conservative Christian culture for the first...
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 and Verses. Smith was the main biblical scholar on the team of consultants who put together The Books of the Bible, a printing of Scripture that includes no extraneous typographical elements. No chapter numbers, no verse numbers,...