I would like to take a post to highlight a blogger that I just discovered: Nancy at The Sacred Page, who describes herself as “Learner, reader, teacher, mother.” She snagged my attention when she blogged on the Messiah College and Monica Goodling press coverage fiasco (which I have done as well). The Sacred Page has [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 31, 2007
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible/Tanak/Jewish Scriptures/Etc.
Several folks in the biblioblogosphere (that is, the world of biblical studies blogs for those uninitiated) have been discussing the perennial question of what to call those Scriptures that Jews use, but Christians also use with a different label. The first post that I read regarding the issue was from Tyler Williams, who gives reprints [...]
May 30, 2007
Evan Almighty "covers" Christianity Today
I am interested in what happens with the Bible in popular culture and so I like to see what’s happening with movies like Evan Almighty. The other day on his blog FilmChat, Peter Chattaway cites a NY Times article that discusses the advertising of Evan Almighty towards church-going audiences. Chattaway doesn’t think that this is [...]
May 29, 2007
Messiah College on The Daily Show: More Goodling
I noticed that someone reached my blog by searching for “daily show messiah college.” I was away this weekend, so I hadn’t watched the latest from Stewart’s Daily Show online. When I looked it up, I found that it was in relation to Monica Goodling, who is unfortunately bringing Messiah’s name into the news for [...]
May 24, 2007
The Bible calls liberals fools…
Or so one person would have you believe. I noticed on a discussion board related to Barack Obama, a conservative gentleman first declared that “so-called bible using liberals” are “nut jobs, liberals dont have religion.” To prove his point, he quoted Ecclesiastes 10:2: “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart [...]
May 23, 2007
New Swartley Reviewed
I’ve got to give a shout out to my fellow Mennonite, Willard Swartley, whose recently published book (Covenant of Peace: The Missing Peace in New Testament Theology and Ethics) has just been reviewed in Review of Biblical Literature. The review, written by Joel Stephen Williams, is a positive one. Somehow I didn’t even notice that [...]
May 23, 2007
"The accuser of our comrades"?
Don’t get me wrong, I like the NRSV for the most part, and I am a huge advocate for inclusive language. But the NRSV does get a little out of hand in their translation of ἀδελφῶν (adelphōn) from time to time. Take Revelation 12:10 for instance:
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, proclaiming,“Now have [...]
May 21, 2007
Committee involvement for personal growth
Posted today on Inside Higher Ed, is an interesting article entitled “Don’t Be Afraid of Committees.” It is written by Adam Kotsko (see his blog here), a doctoral student in philosophy at Chicago Theological Seminary. He surmises that, far from a waste of time, serving on various committees can become an integral part of the [...]
