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a report from palestine

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1603, 30th July, 2010
A friend of mine, named Jonathan Brenneman, is a Mennonite working for a peaceful solution (very Mennonite of him, no?) to Jewish-Arab conflict in Israel/Palestine.  He’s got a personal stake in this because his mother’s side of the family is Palestinian.  So with no further ado, here’s a report on his work in the Middle [...]
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tolerance and religious rights in new zealand

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1315, 28th July, 2010
The New Zealand government, we are told by the MandM blog, is forcing re-education for officials of a religious school who hired an openly homosexual preacher.  And this reminds us that “Human Rights” laws are generally divided into two types:  (1) non-invasive, such as a law which prohibits assault or government discrimination against homosexuals, or [...]
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in the beginning

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1253, 28th July, 2010
All discussions of big issues seem to find their way back to Genesis, don’t they?  There’s just no other work comparable to it.  And so also Joel Hoffman has again turned his attention to Genesis, specifically Rashi’s bit about b’reshit being a construct state noun, which would make the verse read, strangely, “In the beginning [...]
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leviticus 17:7 — demons in the old testament, and goats

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1543, 27th July, 2010
I was reading the other day in my trusty NKJV, in Leviticus 17, and I came to a peculiar thing in verse 7: They shall no more offer sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot.  This shall be a statute forever throughout their generations.
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in the news

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1517, 26th July, 2010
In no particular order, the news I found interestingest today:
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what to do?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1654, 22nd July, 2010
I wrote a note to myself, reminding myself to post on “the possible problem in Revelation 5:5.”  There’s just one little problem–I don’t remember writing anything of that sort, and I can’t find any problems in Revelation 5:5.  It looks pretty straightforward: 5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion [...]
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henry giroux on laissez-faire: the prototypical left-statist critique of right-statists

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1608, 19th July, 2010
The truth is definitely kept out at truth-out.org, where Henry Giroux has recently written an article entitled “The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism.”  It’s a typical left-statist propaganda piece, lashing out against right-statism and mistakenly calling it laissez-faire.  The article contains no small amount of bashing of its enemies as a bunch [...]
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shilingi elfu moja

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1451, 19th July, 2010
My fifteen-year-old brother just got back from a three-week mission trip to Tanzania, where most everyone speaks Swahili, and a great many English as well.  He gave us all quite a lecture on the Swahili language, which reminds me in some ways of Hebrew, and also brought back some currency which provided a fun source [...]
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The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to Copyright

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1410, 16th July, 2010
is the title of this article.  It’s an alternative to copyright which still works as a limited safeguard to the profits of the creator.  Think about it.
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scrivener’s fourth mistake

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1429, 15th July, 2010
Awhile back, I found that I couldn’t find any comprehensive list of places where Scrivener’s translation was not an accurate representation of the Greek underlying the KJV.  So I worked with some existing sources and found a grand total of three places, which I posted here.  I explained that the KJV uses a variant different [...]
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