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The Book of Sand
I showed him his seat. The man paused a moment before speaking. He exuded a melancholy air, as do I now.
“I sell Bibles,” he told me.
Not without pedantry I responded:
“In this house there are several English Bibles, including John Wyclif’s, the first of all. I also have Cypriano de Valera’s, Luther’s — which, as a piece of literature, is the worst of the lot — and a copy of the Vulgate in...
February 2010
December 2009
“The first thing you will need to get started with Emacs is a beard.”
– Wilhelm Bierbaum (via merlin)
October 2009
Narrow is the gate
johnthelutheran:
“The marginal comment on this delicate passage in the Geneva Bible is entertaining; it stresses that the rich whom the Apostle condemns to weep and howl are the wicked and profane rich.”
— Christopher Hill on Puritan interpretations of James 5:1-6, (from The World Turned Upside Down, p.334n)
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June 2009
“The Anglican Church in North America will be formally founded next week,...”
– New Anglican Church poses dilemma
April 2009
“My personal observation is that very few congregations are growing by actually...”
– Christianity Losing Ground in America?
“Instead, what passes as ‘serious academic scholarship’ among many...”
– Euangelion: The Skunk Doth Speakth
March 2009
Understanding Git
Harvard University has a helpful tutorial on the increasingly-popular distributed version control system known as Git.
February 2009
Filipino Time
As a Western traveler, I’ve discovered that there are 4 types of time in the Philippines:
Standard time (professionals and students only)
Filipino time (the most prevalent type, typically 1 hour late)
Indian time (no-show for appointment)
Then there’s Mañana time, so forget about GTD today.
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October 2008
Pelikan on the Reformed Tradition
“… it was alien to the Reformed way of teaching to draw ontological parallels between the Eucharist and the incarnation [in contrast to the Lutherans]… . it was a characteristic of Reformed theologians, and [one] not sufficiently grasped by Lutheran polemics, that in their attempts to specify just what the Reformed churches did teach about the Lord’s Supper and how...
August 2008
“If I see another cool Bible college student or pastoral studies major wearing...”
– “Why I Walked Out of Church”— Julie Neidlinger
“Theologians have seemed to me to be less and less able to develop substantial...”
– John Frame, Reflections of a Lifetime Theologian: An Extended Interview with John M. Frame
November 2007
Another Textual Thing... →
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