While in the U.S. I discovered SmoothJazz.com: Groovy jazz music straight from Monterey Bay, California where I spent a summer working on the Fisherman’s Wharf at the tender age of 16.  Jazz snobs wouldn’t even classify the stuff that plays on that station as jazz.  In fact, it is easy listening instrumental music with sometimes [...]

Because you asked. The classic badge is found here: Wiki-Heads Unite! The whole sad story of FYI Britannica is also available there.

Staggering news this morning.  In a casual perusal of technorati rankings I discovered that I have actually caught up to Speaker of Truth and we are now tied at 82,491.  Is there a way to make that flash in big letters??? <flash>82,491!!!</flash> (Use your imagination!  Whoa, dude.  The air is thin at this altitude! We both [...]

Elizabeth Ker, the grandmother of my grandfather’s grandfather, made a list of her children’s names, place and date of birth and baptism.  She wrote out the list on the back of a page from an unidentified book published by the Edinburgh Bible Society in 1829. Anyone know any Gaelic?  The text on the page is as [...]

Jared Coleman, one of my favorite philosophical theo-bloggers, has just dumped his old blog and started out the new year with a new blog called delectatio Dei. I was unsure of the exact meaning of delectatio when I first came across it.  In my mind it is associated with delight, delicious, and above all delectable. [...]

Previous posts in this series:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Two sides to being a slave

In this post I want to simply give some definitions of kurios in the New Testament. I’ve simplified the information provided by these two very helpful sources.
Barclay Newman’s Greek Lexicion of the New Testament
“Lord (of God and Christ); master, lord, owner; [...]

All ya gotta do is ask. Cyber-chums from around the world have been linking back to Lingamish during our “2007 Lingamish Link Love Campaign”:  Paul at Many Pies: He’s got his fingers in “IT/techie/charity/non profit/mission/Bible translation stuff” My kinda biblio-geeky guy out of the UK. Tyler at Codex: Enough ivory-tower Biblical studies to make [...]

Previous post: C.S. Lewis on Bible translation, part 1: The Moffatt Translation  I have this terrible habit of starting blog series and then never finishing them.  “Wouldn’t it be wonderful,” I think to myself, “to do a series of posts on such-and-such a topic.” I start writing away in a hot passion of inspiration and confidently [...]

Startling news this morning as it has been reported to me by a reliable source that there has been a fresh smenita outbreak at Blogger.  Many of you may not realize that one of my many responsibilities as a cyber-citizen is maintaining the centre for smenitalogical studies at Blogger.com. The first recorded instance of smenita [...]

Check out a simple way to support a missionary in africa. Bruce took me up on my whining plea for more links to my blog (I can feel my technorati power increasing…). By the way, he’s got some cool stuff on his blog including chicken nugget parables, VIII Christians and what, I ask [...]

Previous post:  Part 1: Introduction

English translations tend to use “lord” when referring to God but “master” or “ruler” when referring to men. This creates some confusion in the minds of readers since the average reader will not be aware that the two words refer to a single concept and so they will often miss the [...]

I’m hopelessly addicted to blog rankings. Even while stranded in the African desert of internet connectivity I still compulsively check how many people are viewing my blog and what my technorati rank is. Can’t help it. Gotta know.
technorati tells all
Currently at technorati my blog is ranked at 95,241. I call that a “5-digit [...]