The following is my reply to an email sent by a visitor to my website, asking for an explanation of the different Bible “versions.” Please remember that this is only an overview of the topic and is written for one evangelical Christian, by another. Dear [name withheld], Thank you for your question. I will try […]
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I’m back! My dad and I just spent two weeks visiting grad schools, traveling from Georgia to North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, and back to Georgia. That’s a lot of driving. It took me through some of the nation’s biggest cities (and traffic jams) and some of the most interesting
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It is easier to analyze the thoughts of scholars who wrote in Hebrew and passed away nearly two thousand years ago than to remember the meaning of notes made in 1999, by still-living professors, presumably in English, in the margins of a paper about these same scholars. Not very profound, perhaps, but true…
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I am definitely heading to grad school – I’ve decided that’s really where I’m called and where I want to be. So, applications have been a major reason for the lack of updates, recently. So much to do… I’m excited, though, and even have some rough ideas for thesis topics (yes, that’s 2-3 years away,
I was about 30 feet away, when a lightning bolt blew apart a large sweetgum tree, in the back yard. Fortunately, I was inside, but I still went flash-blind and concussion-deaf, for a few seconds. That’s the second closest I’ve been to a lightning strike (the closest was a direct hit between the cabin and