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Sports and Christianity: How Should Christians Handle Competition?
A couple days ago, a friend pointed me to, “Sports Fanatics,” a Christianity Today article in which Shirl James Hoffman (author of the book, Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports, from which the article is taken) argues that (mainly Evangelical) Christianity’s relationship with sports has ultimately been detrimental to the faith, with... »
Not Everyone Leaving Churches is Leaving the Church
Matthew Green has just posted a very interesting article, “The Church Dropout,” which looks at the growing number of people choosing no longer to attend church, despite not having lost their faith, choosing less formal meetings or other forms of participation in Christian community. The article addresses several important ecclesiological issues brought up by... »
Children’s Bible Translations: Thoughts
Joel Hoffman has just posted on the subject of Bible translations for children, spurred by Ellen Frankel’s post on “Making the Bible PG.” Hoffman brings up some good points about children speaking a different dialect than their parents and lacking the conceptual base to understand certain language or actions: a “barren woman” is one... »
Liberals Aren’t the Only Ones Who Tweak the Text
The Huffington Post is reporting (via Beliefnet and other sources) an astonishingly brazen project put forth by conservapedia.com (which itself could leave someone speechless): the “Conservative Bible Project.” This project undertakes to eliminate “liberal bias” from the Bible, since the proponent(s) of this project suggest that modern Bible translations are dominated by just such... »
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