From the monthly archives:

November 2009

The KJV superiority challenge

November 30, 2009

Thanks to Claude Mariottini for alerting me to this challenge. Read Claude’s own response on points of translational detail, picking up on some unfortunately chosen examples in the article.
While I have sympathy with Greenberg’s complaint about the numbers of tailored editions, I fear he is simply wrong to confuse the obfuscating obsolesence of some Tudor [...]

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How lovely on the mountains: today’s Advent calendar

November 30, 2009
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Revivals, snake-oil salesmen and pathetic prophets

November 30, 2009

The prolific poster Joel Watts notes an early advertisement for the latest miracle cure for ordinary Christian life.
So, if you want the latest cure for cancer, or possibly just a gold tooth-filling, or your leg lengthening, roll up. Another ministry is looking for gullible givers committed supporters.
It used to be that before you got gulled [...]

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Advent Calendar: Advent Sunday

November 29, 2009
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Will my Advent imagination last for a whole calendar?

November 29, 2009

I’m going to be trying to produce an Advent calendar here on clayboy. The intention is to provide a picture (I hope mainly of my own) together with a haiku based on one of the Mass readings for the day. I shall note, in the first comment on each post, the origin of the photograph, [...]

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The mainly male Manhattan marriage anxiety

November 28, 2009

I’m not American, and that may be why I find the Manhattan Declaration somewhat bizarre, and I can’t quite avoid the suspicion that the sandwich of “the sanctity of human life” and “the rights of conscience and religious liberty” are there to disguise the filling on “the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of [...]

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The Big Question: in an elderly and inward looking church …

November 28, 2009

… what should you do in the face of a budget deficit? The Diocese of Winchester has the answer:

cut the funding for work with students
cut two training posts for new clergy
cut the communications budget and replace the worker with an adviser
cut the funding for the canon missioner

Dave Walker notes tonight that Winchester Diocese passed its [...]

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Gaius is not Stephanas

November 28, 2009

Richard Fellows suggests with many that in the Corinthian Church Gaius and Titius Justus are to be identified as the same person. He goes a step further and suggests the man with this good proud Roman name is also to be known by a Greek nickname and identified with Stephanas.

The name “Stephanas” means “crowned” or [...]

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BSC 48 is cooking

November 28, 2009

I’m working at the next Biblical Studies Carnival, so other blogging may be light to non-existent this weekend. The job is, I fear, a far larger one than it was.

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The strange case of Jesus and the maple syrup harvest

November 27, 2009

From time to time I click on one of the more obscure links that Google News finds for me. Today I was guided to this fascinatingly weird letter in the Green Bay Press Gazette.

It is an established fact that Christ’s birthday was placed over the pagan celebration of Saturnalia, and Easter was to take the [...]

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