As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“if [Miles] Coverdale is right about the benefits of multiple translations, why do many of us feel so much angst when choosing a translation? Why is there so much pressure to have the best one?” - Text & Canon
“Origen’s six-columned Old Testament, produced in the second century, was a monumental achievement in the Bible’s history.” - TCI
“Sean McGever’s Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield seeks to shed light on this complex subject, focusing on three of American evangelicalism’s three most influential figures” - Providence
“Christianity, at least in its earliest centuries, had a reputation for being pro-woman, to the point of being disparaged as an effeminate, even emasculating, religious association.” - Word by Word
“They lived in a world with challenges and concerns that don’t feel as pressing to us. So they seem less equipped to help us with ministry. Yet Ford and Wilhite show how these pastors offer wisdom for contemporary pastoral practice.” - TGC
“But what’s the truth about Darby? What responsibility does he bear for the spread of dispensationalism and Zionist politics?” - TGC
“Fifty years ago this week, the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland, hosted the First International Congress on World Evangelization (known as Lausanne 1, or Lausanne ’74)” - TGC
“Before that, all existing Bibles were copied by hand. The process could take up to a year…. Gutenberg’s invention produced a massive multiplication of complete copies of biblical texts.” - Baptist Press
“It is a useful fact for trivia night that Oxford University Press…has a bestselling book of all time that it doesn’t often celebrate. That bestseller is the Scofield Reference Bible, edited by C. I. Scofield, first published in 1909….
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