Category Archives: Daily Links and Notes

just goes to show you can abuse thousands of people, resign in disgrace, lose your church and STILL land the cover of a Christian magazine. Selah. pic.twitter.com/lkTxqA2vYz — Elizabeth Esther (@elizabethesther) August 22, 2018

https://chuckdegroat.net/2018/08/08/bill-hybels-and-the-future-of-the-church-after-churchtoo/ In the wake of every inevitable failure two common responses emerge: 1. Systems are evil, tear down all systems. 2. The currents systems are corrupt. We need a new system. The two responses are of course contradictory, but we … Continue reading →

http://heritage.utoronto.ca/content/bible-and-english-literature-northrop-frye-full-lecture-2 Minute 11 where he goes through this and then notes Luke 15 as an exception, but via Kenneth Bailey not as much of an exception as Frye thinks.

Fight club or Dead Poet Society 16+ Authorial self-censorship, child abuse and killing a bird.  

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/40477/who-is-plato-and-socrates-god/40479#40479

Why and how is translation so hard? Here's a little non-comparative case study to help make the process more visible. 9 words from the very start of the Odyssey, lines 1-2: ὃς μάλα πολλὰ / πλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον … Continue reading →