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Hiatus
Okay, it’s official. I’m on blog vacation. Life has been getting in the way this month – and it’s not going to let up for the next couple. Life is good, but it’s not currently conducive to blogging. So, I’m going to go travel the world for a month then move across the country and…
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“Are you nuts?!” Why, yes, thank you, I just might be…
One of my favorite Steve Martin scenes takes place in the bread aisle of the supermarket where he has been sent on an errand to buy hot dog buns. Annoyed by the fact that hot dogs come in packs of eight and buns come by the dozen, he flips out and rips open the bun…
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A Traveler’s Thanks
It’s Thanksgiving Eve, and after a week of whirlwind travel, I’m thankful to be exactly where I am tonight – in a quiet house in a sleepy suburb. On Friday I flew to San Francisco for three days of non-vacation. I stayed with a good friend, and we ended up in a third-story hotel room…
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Don’t Miss This! (Daniel 1)
Sometimes you can miss the first few minutes of a movie or even the first few pages of a book, and you can still catch up pretty easily. This is not the case in the book of Daniel. If you read too quickly past the first 2 verses of chapter 1, you miss the key…
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Shirley Franke: ‘Til We Meet Again
When I passed my PhD exams in 2008, I took a much-needed vacation before launching fulltime dissertation work. My travels took me to see some old college friends in Knoxville, Tennessee, and while their presence would have been more than enough balm for a weary soul, the trip had a bonus balm in the person…
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How to Read a Biblical Story
The Bible is full of stories – more properly called narratives—and most people don’t give a second thought to how they should be read. They’re stories, for crying out loud. Who doesn’t know how to read a story? Why are you wasting Web space – and my time – on this post? But it’s not…
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What Is It, Anyway?
Daniel is a one-of-a-kind book in the Bible. In case this is news to you, let me tell you what’s so unusual about it: (1) Your translators had to do double duty in Daniel because the original is written in two different languages (Hebrew in chapters 1, 8–12, and sister-language Aramaic in chapters 2–7 );…
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Never Say Never
It is a lovely twist of irony that I, the one who said I’d never blog, am blogging first about a book I never wanted to study. I have spent most of my adult life successfully avoiding the Old Testament book of Daniel – a success only matched by my avoidance of the New Testament…
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