The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom
Craig Bartholomew offers some insightful comments on wisdom in Proverbs: There are no areas of life that wisdom does not reflect upon: leadership and royalty, wealth and poverty, economics and law, and justice, marriage, and developing sexuality—they are all here, reminding us that all of life is a response to God. This is not to say that the Wisdom books assume that wisdom provides quick and easy answers to the challenges of life. Job and Ecclesiastes, in particular, witness to the complexity...
Good Reads
I’m becoming a big fan of GoodReads. It’s a social network built around one of my major interests—reading—instead of around… around… Oh, bother. What is Facebook built around?! Cute toddler antics, I guess—or at least that’s what my friends are most interested in posting and reading. So I have a GoodReads-related announcement. I haven’t told the 50% of my blog readership who encounters this blog through Google Reader, but I might as well let him in on it now: I have a new page, supplied by a...
Review: Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch My rating: 4 of 5 stars I went to a liberal arts school. Why did I bother? Why did I bother learning the history of art or music? Why not just learn what it takes to make money now? Andy Crouch answers with a book-length "because God said so." That's what you'll find in Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. This is an expansive book that travels through sociology, through the whole storyline of Scripture, and...
Must-See Video on the ESV Translation Committee
The Internet lets the whole world into doors that are otherwise of necessity locked. Check out this video of the ESV translators arguing (courteously but firmly) over the rendering of δούλος in 1 Cor 7. Incidentally, somebody paid to have all those busy scholars flown to England and housed around Tyndale House. That's why I view copyrights on Bibles as a good thing: the laborer is worthy of his hire. We should not expect fellow Christians to give us their labors for free. HT: Rod Decker
BJU Press CHART Seminar on a Christian View of Literature
Just got this in the mail! Looks sort of cool, I guess! Feel free to join in! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us for November's online seminar: Shaping a Biblical Worldview Through the Study of Literature Presenter: Mark Ward Jr. When: Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 2:30 p.m. EST (11:30 a.m. PST) Teaching literature at home can be easy. Students may read stories, learn literary vocabulary, and answer comprehension questions for literature class. But...