Of the LXX, MT, and Translations
by Mark OlsonRecently I noted textual differences between the MT and LXX text in Isaiah. One other difference noted in our reading recently was in 1 Chronicles (translated as Supplements in the LXX) 21. From the ESV (a MT based translation):Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to say to David that David . . . . Continue Reading »
A Short Christmas Survey
by Collin BrendemuehlOk. I’ve got some questions about Christmas. Think of this as a little survey.1. Do you find yourself talking (teaching/preaching) of the atonement more, less, or about the same during the Christmas season?2. Do you find a greater, lesser, or unchanged emphasis on . . . . Continue Reading »
“Let Us Listen to Mary’s Voice!”
by Mary Ellen KellyOn the afternoon of December 8—the Feast of the Immaculate Conception—Pope Benedict XVI made the traditional papal visit to Rome’s Piazza di Spagna to honor the Blessed Mother at the foot of the plaza’s Colonna dell’Immacolata. There, in the pope’s words, “Mary . . . . Continue Reading »
Climategate and Confederacy Theories
by Joe CarterMegan McArdle expresses a sentiment many people share when it comes to weighing the importance of Climategate to the larger questions about climate change: I am thoroughly unimpressed with the belief that global warming scientists have been engaging in some kind of massive conspiracy to conceal the . . . . Continue Reading »
Flash Forward: The Year in Bioethics 2010
by Wesley J. SmithEach year, the CBC asks me to predict what will happen in the coming year in bioethics. I have done so. From my piece:“Flash Forward” is a new and interesting television drama presented on the ABC Television Network. The premise is brilliant – due to reasons still . . . . Continue Reading »
Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying
by David T. KoyzisI would love for our churches to sing Advent hymns all year round. Why? Because they convey the aching sense of longing that all of us Christians have as we continue to live between the times. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it,Advent is a time of waiting. Our whole life, however, is Advent — that . . . . Continue Reading »
Climategate: That Mendacious Al Gore Lies Again
by Wesley J. SmithAl Gore is a disgrace—now a very rich disgrace—but a disgrace, nonetheless. If global warming is the crisis he claims, he should be debating all comers. He should face hostile questions and rebut them with facts. But he won’t. Perhaps that’s because he is too . . . . Continue Reading »
Utilitarian Bioethics: We’re All Just Natural Resources Now
by Wesley J. SmithI have detected a new bioethical thrust being trotted out among the would-be medical ruling class—that each of us have a duty to be experimented upon. First it was President Obama’s bioethicist-in-chief Ezekien Emanuel. Now a medical professor named Anthony Mathur in the UK . . . . Continue Reading »
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