Entries categorized as bible
The Bible for Spin Doctors
Church Mouse is on top form this morning
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Scapegoats, shambles and shibboleths
I like finding out about the origins of words and phrases – someone noted the other day that I rarely preach a sermon without mentioning the etymology of at least one word. One of the most entertaining sidelines of my research on S T Coleridge was discovering how many of the words and phrases in More...
The Devil is behind the NIV
A couple of weeks ago I posted on a Bible-burning event – the AmazingGrace church were planning to burn any translation of the Bible except the King James Version.
Rain, protesters and local law enforcement apparently led to the event being adapted – it sounds like they cut up the bibles at a small private More...
Bible reading
"…we should be trying to work out how to read the bible well rather than reading the text right."
Paula Gooder
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Bible and English literature – Cross-Reference
I've been in contact with various agencies over the last year or so on the issue of the realtionship between the Bible and various streams of Western culture. I have an abiding interest in how the Bible – its compilation and translation, and how it has been understood and nuanced at different stages in history More...
Biblical Illiteracy
Beth Twiston Davies comments on a subject close to my own heart.
People often assume that you would only read the Bible if you were interested in religion. But without a degree of biblical knowlege, you can't understand Western art, from the earliest known artefacts right through to Banksy and Damien Hirst; you don't get More...
The Bible – Genesis, Illustrated by Robert Crumb
I have quite a collection of Bibles on my shelf ( several of which, no doubt, the AmazingGrace BaptistChurch would add to their bonfire next week ) and quite a few notebooks with my own translations. One or two of these have illustrations in – like the classic 1960's Good News for Modern Man (remember More...
Reading the Bible
Over the past few months I’ve been writing about the Bible – why to read it, how to read it, what you miss if you don’t read it…
two interesting new-ish books came my way in the midst of this. Richard Foster’s Life With God details the connection between intellectual and spiritual reading, and for More...
Glo Bible
The Glo Bible is released today.
It seems you can see the Holy Land without every leaving your screen, and have all those maps and history timelines that you find in the back of Bibles digitised on screen. Not only can you read the Bible, says the trailer, you can see it and feel it More...
The Bible
I've been busy write-write-writing over the last few months, and in between whiles trying to amass a list of suggested reading to go at the end of my next book. It's quite a different exercise from giving a bibliography, which is either a sample or a complete list of the main sources that are referenced More...
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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