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Gary North on Africa and Bill Gates
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What is the Future of Global Christianity?
I’ll give you a hint: it’s neither white nor liberal. Start here. Related Posts:A World of ElitesWhy I Intend to Study LawThoughts on O’Donovan’s “The Desire of the Nations”a thoughtful look at polygamy among african christians
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A World of Elites
I spent my entire childhood below the US poverty line, and yet my family of eleven enjoyed a lifestyle which medieval kings could only dream of. The only two things a medieval king would have that we did not would be land and the ability to call servants. In every other way our standard of [...]
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Negotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed Translation
Sometimes, translation is more like a negotiation than calculation. The translator is always moving a source text into a target language and juggling several conflicting goals at once. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn’t done much translation, hasn’t taken it very seriously, or is simply lying. The negotiation is sometimes comparatively easy, but sometimes negotiations [...]
The Ascension of Moses
My translation from the Talmud, Tractate Shabbat, pages 88b-89a: And Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said, When Moses ascended on high, the serving angels said before the Holy One, Blessed Be He: “Master of the Universe, what does one born of woman have to do with us?” He said to them, “He comes to receive Torah.” [...]
500 words on Michael Fishbane’s “Text and Texture”
Michael Fishbane’s Text and Texture is a little book: 150 pages. It asks about biblical texts: what they teach, how they interact with culture, how we may reconstruct their intentions, what avenues for thought they open up. He wisely avoids trying to give an overview of those question in a general Bible-wide way, as Fishbane’s [...]
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Walk Like An Egyptian: Tax Exemptions for Religious Organizations are a Trap
If the lines of the Bible are marvelous, what can be found between the lines is truly mind-blowing. Take the example of a passage that is eerily similar to today: 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because the Egyptians, every man, sold their fields, because the famine prevailed over them. [...]
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On Presuppositionalists and Postcolonialists and Where They Both Can Go Wrong
Presuppositionalists, a varied group of people including such names as Cornelius Van Til, John Frame, Greg Bahnsen, Gordon Clark, R. J. Rushdoony, Francis Schaeffer, and Gary North, have contributed a great deal to the Christian world. In particular, they have helped Christians think about presuppositions, philosophy, politics, economics, and even art criticism from within a [...]
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T. Boone Pickens: Natural Gas is the Bridge Fuel