From the daily archives:

Monday, November 9, 2009

Walt Disney’s Genesis or Tom Cruise plays Noah

November 9, 2009

Peter Enns draws attention with a very favourable review to the Old Testament set of the Bible Backgrounds Commentary. He sees it a really good set for

“bridging the gap” between the state of Old Testament scholarship and every-day Bible readers, a gap that is remarkably large, given the fact that so much information has been [...]

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Translating Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Constitution into plain English

November 9, 2009

I’ve been encouraged to comment on the Vatican’s (presumably strongly Benedict driven) regulations for admitting renegade Anglicans to Rome. It’s a bit hard to know exactly what to say, since in some ways it’s a bit hard to know exactly what they mean. I’ve had a go at translating the main provisions.
In each instance below [...]

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Sometimes history is good

November 9, 2009
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There are very few occasions when you know history is being made even as you watch it happening. For sometime it wasn’t entirely clear what it meant, but 20 years ago today I was glued to the news as the Berlin Wall ceased to divide the world. In some respects it has remained in my [...]

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