Kindle Books Available Through Public Libraries!
You can now borrow Kindle books from your local library. The Greenville Library says the service is “coming soon.” HT: Dustin Battles
Another Verse in the KJV That Can Be Easily Misunderstood
A few years ago I turned on the TV (don’t ask why; I had no excuse) and flipped over to the Church Channel. There I beheld a white, 40-something charismatic preacher jumping around the stage before a wildly clapping and shouting audience. He read the following verse out of the KJV, and it was projected on the television screen in front of him: And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. (John 2:3 KJV) The preacher was tired, he said, of the kind of...
Review: Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus by Elyse Fitzpatrick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Preface to Make a Long Review even Longer I have an 18-month-old. He usually behaves pretty well. For an 18-month-old. I think. You see, I’ve never had one before, I haven’t made a whole lot of observations of 18-month-olds, and I don’t ever remember being one. So should you take my review of this parenting book with a grain of salt? Maybe more than one grain? Sure, yes. Always do that. I...
Different Strokes for Different Circumstances
Lev Grossman in the NY Times: The codex isn’t just another format, it’s the one for which the novel is optimized. The contemporary novel’s dense, layered language took root and grew in the codex, and it demands the kind of navigation that only the codex provides. Imagine trying to negotiate the nested, echoing labyrinth of David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas” if it were transcribed onto a scroll. It couldn’t be done. I think our way out of the sometimes bitter paper vs. e-books debate is to...
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 4, Chapter 4: “Redemption” (With Chapter 5 and the Postscript Kind of Thrown In There)
I’m late, I’m late… I was on a professional development trip and I just couldn’t get the last post of the month out. I needed to redeem the time a little better, apparently. So here we go: Redemption. First I’ll just tick off a few reflections: Normally I’m uncomfortable with reasoning directly from individual biblical words to a resultant systematic theological point (pp. 69–70). Just because redemption, reconciliation, renewal, and regeneration start with “re-” doesn’t mean that the Bible...