The Eagle & Child

Does [the Bible] match up with scientific evidence? Who cares? … I do not believe science, history or archaeology of any kind establishes the truthfulness of the scripture in any way. Scripture is true by virtue of God speaking it. If God spoke poetry, or parable, or fiction or a prescientific description of creation, it [...]

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At Midwinter Conference in Chicago I was made aware of the recent release of two books isolating the words of Jesus in scripture: The Words of Jesus (Phyllis Tickle) and The Red Letters (Timothy Beals).  Phyllis Tickle said that the result was so powerful that her publisher insisted that she add headings and breaks so as not [...]

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Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions, it struck me how the overwhelming majority of Augustine’s scriptural references (and the text is riddled with them) are from the Old Testament.  Reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians, I was reminded of the story of the travelers  on the road to Emmaus, in which Jesus uses the Old Testament [...]

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I caught a bit of Ideas on CBC Radio One.  I see now that it’s an interview with Susan Neimann, author of Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists (sounds like just the book for me).  I’ll have to listen to the podcast of the full program later, but she talked about some interesting things in [...]

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Which translation of the Bible do you use? (AKA, my defense of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible) I grew up with the New International Version (NIV)—standard text, I think, for my generation of evangelicals—and I still use it: I use an NIV Thompson Chain Reference Bible and have an exhaustive concordance based [...]

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