Bloggingheads at the NYT
I just watched a New York Times bloggingheads debate between Molly Ziegler Hemingway of Christianity Today Sarah Posner of Religion Dispatches over the matter of same-sex marriage. Hemingway took what appears to me to be the most popular evangelical line, a case which insists it is not based on religion. Any person, religious or not, Hemingway said, can hold the position that marriage serves society best when it is heterosexual, procreative, and stable. At best, she implied, gay...
Why I Chose the ESV over the NASB
The ESV and the NASB are very similar translations. When the ESV first came out in 2001 I started an Excel spreadsheet to record passages where I believed one to be superior to the other. I evaluated them based on accuracy, mainly. In the end, they came out neck and neck. I just looked at that file again, and I’m not sure I’d make all the same choices, but reading the two translations over the years has led me to the same conclusion. Both the ESV and the NASB are conservative translations....
Remark from a Carrot Top
Thank you, politics. Without you, I wouldn’t even know any racial slurs. Ignorance is bliss, and I’ve been happy for a long time. But along comes politics, and I have to learn words I didn’t want to know. You would think that the number one rule politicians learn in Get Elected School is “don’t use racial slurs.” Apparently some of them cut that class. That’s the last time they cut anything.
Blog Advice
NOTE: If you arrived here by trying to go to my old site, markandlauraward.com, update your bookmarks. This is my new URL. Same content. New address. A friend just asked me for advice in starting a blog. This is what I sent him: Have a definite purpose and audience for your blog. My purpose is to be for other younger seminary guys what my seminary roommate was for me: an older friend encouraging and modeling good Bible interpretation and nascent scholarship. I also throw in tech advice. Post...
Io voglio credere!
One place I visited in Israel was the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu, named after Jesus’ famous prediction of Peter’s denials. The site afforded a nice view of the Aceldama (see picture) and the intersection of the Hinnom and Kidron valleys. We didn’t go inside the church, because we weren’t in the country to venerate relics but to see as many biblical sites as is humanly possible in two weeks! But many others do comes to Israel just to touch holy sites. Our guide told us that Roman...