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A new handwritten Bible

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
By Megan Sweas
Have a few thousand dollars to spend?
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Who were the prophets?

Friday, October 30, 2009
By goodwink
Who were the prophets?
The art of prophecy is very difficult," Mark Twain once said, "especially with respect to the future." Surprisingly, Twain's words pretty much describe biblical prophecy.
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Be here now: The benefits of living in the present

Monday, October 26, 2009
By goodwink
Be here now: The benefits of living in the present
There's no time like the present for living in God's presence.
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What future did Paul see for his letters?

Thursday, August 27, 2009
By goodwink
For most of the year Christians hear a part of a letter of St. Paul read during Sunday worship. But if you had stopped Paul on the street in some place like Corinth and asked him if he thought his letters would become a permanent part of Christian liturgy and that his faith would make him the father of Christian theology, he probably would have laughed at you, in between dodging stones.
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Are the gospels historical?

Thursday, August 27, 2009
By goodwink
People today tend to think that history is pretty much about facts. Though history is always interpreted, the aim of history is to uncover facts to paint a picture of the past as it more or less happened. So to ask if the gospels are historical is the same as asking, "Did things really happen that way?
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A really old new-fangled Bible

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By Megan Sweas
I've written a number of posts about the various new ways we come up with presenting the Bible: magazines, coffee table books, websites, and so on. But none of these impress me more than the website for the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest Bible known to man.
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Digital Bibles: The Good...Flash Drive?

Monday, June 8, 2009
By Megan Sweas
The Good Book is now not only a book, but a flash drive. Just stick the “God on the Go” flash drive into a USB port and you can access the entire Bible from your computer. Publisher ACTA emphasizes that it’s more convenient—and green—than carrying around the Good Book. Also, scripture takes up only 10 percent of the space, so you can use the flash drive as a memory stick for your own documents.
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Will the real Jesus please stand up?: An interview with Daniel Harrington, S.J.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
By goodwink
Will the real Jesus please stand up?: An interview with Daniel Harrington, S.J.
Yes, the gospels present four different portraits of Jesus. That's the whole point.
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