My parents put forth an interesting question on their blog. How would you approach Bible translation? Here is a snippet: In over 60 years of translation work, SIL has sought to turn out the most accurate translation possible for the indigenous peoples of the world, keeping in mind the culture, the readability and flow of the text. Consequently, it has taken many years to translate the Scriptures in most cases. But is this the best approach? One of the partner…
Paul was telling me yesterday about a CNN segment about things that have faded out of use in our culture as technology and styles change. It was more talking about recent things – things in our lifetime. Here were some of the things they brought up: Beta and VHS tapes (although Paul argues that Beta are used extensively in TV – I know when our company does commercials, we have to send them to a TV station on Beta tapes)…
As I’ve mentioned before, Paul and I take Jera to the dog park for about an hour 4 times a week. We’ve found if we aren’t consistent about this she drives us NUTS. (THOSE are the times when I just want to open the door and let her run away, far away…) There is a nice dog park about 10 minutes from our house that just opened recently. It’s really nice, with a large park for big dogs and a…
Originally published on September 20th, 2006 at Onward & Upward Last week, I picked up a copy of Jars of Clay‘s newest CD, “Good Monsters”. Jars of Clay is my all-time favorite music group; I’ve followed them since their first CD. I love the style of music and I love their lyrics, and in my opinion their new CD does not disappoint! One song on this album really jumped out at me. Recently, I’ve been thinking about our own mortality….
Some of you may remember that occasionally Beth and I participated in the Carnival of Beauty over at Onward & Upward. Amanda has posted some changes that are being made to the Carnival on her blog. One of the big things she did was to make a Google Group with all the information in one place. I’d encourage you to check it out and if you’re interested, be a group member! What is the Carnival of Beauty? Well it’s a…