Category Archives: church

Facebook: Which Protestant denomination should you join?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 4, 2009
Usually I don’t populate Facebook items here, but this was a recent quiz that I thought some might find interesting (HT: Mike Beidler) – not sure if it’s available in a non-Facebook format. My result is particularly interesting to me in that Disciples of Christ shares a common root with the quasi-denomination that I grew up [...]
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How much do you have to hate someone?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: April 17, 2009
I don’t know if this video made it around the blogs in the last few months, but it was used as an illustration point a month or so ago at our church and I thought it was worth sharing. Regardless of what you think about Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller) as an atheist, his question [...]
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The literary Bible: Feeding the flames of hell

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: September 3, 2008
This is a post in a continuing translation comparison series. Focused on “the literary Bible”, my intent is look at passages or phrases where translations that have been especially noted for their literary translation qualities seem to capture the meaning of the text with an extra dash of written flavor, at least in comparison with [...]
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Wisdom in works

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: August 12, 2008
Recently I’ve been moving away from reading theological blogs. It’s not that I find theological nuances uninteresting, but too often the discussions are just words to me and I don’t see evidence of them bearing fruit in my daily walk. So rather than continue in that personal wilderness, I’ve been trying to take a more [...]
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Pew Bible ponderings: 2 Peter 1:3-9

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: July 11, 2008
I attempted once again to use my REB as my Sunday “church Bible” again this past week, with mixed results. For those coming new to this blog, my church uses the NIV as its pew and pastoral translation; however, for reasons I can’t fully explain, I’ve never warmed to the NIV and so have been [...]
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