If you want to see a good example of no-holds barred theological arguing, this post on Better Bibles Blog is a great example. Suzanne McCarthy thoroughly de-constructs some very wooly thinking by Wayne Grudem. One of the hardest things that a Bible translator has to do is to avoid reading his or her own presuppositions […]
Month: August 2007
What Theologian Are You?
Click this link to take a quiz and find which theologian you most resemble. Somewhat surprisingly, I find myself as being like Anselm. I suppose that studying the Trinity has made me more in line with some early theologians than their later equivalents. I do have a 73% overlap with Calvin though, so I’m still […]
One Laptop Per Child
Sometimes an idea which can seem good in one context seems positively daft in another. There is an illustration of this in Lingamish’s treatment of the well intentioned, but ultimately unrealistic one laptop per child project. This project is a very good example of creating dependency, which I touched on here. By the way, if […]
Kiss of life from a hippo!
If you have never seen this very odd You Tube video it is well worth a watch. Basically, a hippo tries to save a gazelle from being eaten by a crocodile. It’s hard to believe but…
Malaria Train
When I was in Congo earlier this year I met John James the BBC correspondent in that country. I heard today that he will soon be moving to Ivory Coast to take up a role there – this is good news. John is an excellent journalist as well as being a good guy (and we […]
If you look at a map of Africa there are a huge number of countries where French is the national language. Starting with Senegal in the West and stretching down to the Democratic Republic of Congo most of the countries (Nigeria and Ghana are the main exceptions but there are a couple of others) were […]
Sorry, I’m not being original again, but I thought that this piece by Ben was far too good not to link to. Well of course part of the problem is the very nature of the modern and western church. It is all too often narcissistic and self-serving to the core. It spends the vast majority […]
Cranmer has an interesting piece on the plight of the indigenous Christian population of Iraq. It is perhaps one of the great ironies of the whole Iraq debacle that President Bush and Prime Minister Blair – two of the most avowedly Christian leaders of recent times – should have created a situation which has not […]
In my normal, un-opinionated way, I reckon that every English speaking Christian should have read Fee and Stuart’s wonderful book How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. It really is an excellent non-technical, but academically excellent guide to how to get the best out of reading the Bible. However, if you can’t wait […]
The Vulnerable God
Yesterday in a devotional session before we got into talking about Bible translation strategy, a colleague led a meditation on Psalm 91. This is one of those passages which I must have read hundreds of times, but once again, I was struck by how the Bible always seems to have something new. The bit I […]