Tag Archives: Bible

The literary genre of Acts. 1: Ancient Prologues

Posted on November 14, 2007 by

While this is on a “rationalist” blog, it is also excellent Biblical scholarship which fundamentalists really need to take seriously — indeed anyone interested in history or theology.

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Against certainty

Posted on November 1, 2007 by

Julie Galambush interview. (If that doesn’t work… or here.) Allow me to recommend a book as a Top Read of 2007 even if only three people in Australia have read it. The Reluctant Parting by Julie Galambush (Harper Collins 2006) … Continue reading →

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PC not, but in a healthy way

Posted on September 6, 2007 by

I so bridle at the term “political correctness” that I resolved at the beginning of this year to avoid it. One reason for that is that the term often becomes a fall-back position for those who want to justify their … Continue reading →

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Book of Job revisited

Posted on September 2, 2007 by

I mentioned The Book of Job back on the 26th of August and promised a snippet from the old Catholic Knox version. You have to be careful with snippets from Job as it is best read as a whole work rather … Continue reading →

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Book of Job

Posted on August 26, 2007 by

My eccentric following of the US Book of Common Prayer Lectionary has moved on from the mixed blessings of Judges to one of those books everyone should read at some time in their lives: The Book of Job. There are … Continue reading →

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Wet Sunday, slow start — reading homilies!

Posted on August 19, 2007 by

The word “homily” does have, deservedly sometimes, negative associations. It is certainly not a genre that most people rush to read, unless rebadged as in today’s Sunday Telegraph, a topic for my Journalspace blog, as an editorial by Glenn Milne. … Continue reading →

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