What in the World! selections, no. 1
I'm planning to provide select excerpts from the What in the World! (WITW) newsletter as a regular feature of this blog. The newsletter is available free from Bob Jones University. It's been coming out for a good 20 years as a service to local churches. So here's my first selection, this one from the latest issue. I consider it especially powerful when a non-Christian attacks the faulty thinking of his own, like in the following: Science is science. Religion is religion. Each should stay on...
The status of women in OT times
I just finished reading Ezra and writing about it for tenth graders. I spent a fair amount of time evaluating and seeking to understand Ezra's actions at the end of the book, the 111 divorces he oversaw. I had a thought: if marrying a Canaanite woman didn't make that woman a Jew (you had to be a Rahab or a Ruth to become a Jew, someone who feared God) apparently women in OT times had a responsibility to believe as individuals. Am I wrong to see that responsibility as conferring a higher status...
Pandora
I just got a recommendation from a friend to try a cool Internet radio station called Pandora. You can set up your own Internet radio stations based on your favorite artists. So I made a station for artists like "Chanticleer" and one for artists like "The King's Singers." So far I'm getting all a cappella, but there really just aren't that many groups like my two favorites so I am clicking the "thumbs down" option on many of the artists they're suggesting. After a while Pandora will learn more...
Quotation
“The more you hang out with monkeys the more you realize just how special people really are.” —a scientist in the recent Smithsonian
The TNIV and The Books of the Bible 3
If you go to "The Books of the Bible" site, don't be put off by the endorsements. It appears that IBS realizes that they've lost conservative evangelicalism as a target demographic for the TNIV. Too many names we all (rightly!) trust came out against it. So they're touting endorsements from people who live on the far left side of evangelicalism—or who, sadly, have fallen off the edge. I've received some real profit from Tremper Longman's work and a little from that of Scot McKnight. But Brian...