For those working as a pastor or biblical teacher, some advice from the Jesus Creed blog written by Kent Anderson:

I have dealt with everything from murder to suicide to sexual abuse to goofy boards to cranky members to bats in the church to you name it. Knowing this – the one thing I would make [...]

Before you scream blasphemy, please know that I’m only quoting a preacher who was quoting the Bible.
A friend sent me a link to this seemingly real video of a preacher. The title of the blog post I saw it in is called “Bad Hermeneutics.” Uh yeah.
From this OT passage, he somehow squeezes out the [...]

Melinda at Intellectuelle has a post up about one of her pet peeves: the misuse of “the truth shall set you free.” It’s a phrase from the Bible that is referring specifically to the Gospel message, but it’s commonly used to refer to just truth in general, stripped of the original Biblical context.
That got me [...]

I’d never this interpretation of Satan in the book of Job before. According to Tyler over at Codex, the satan in Job is not the same Satan in the NT:
The appearance of “Satan” in virtually all English translations of the book of Job befuddles me since it is very clear that Satan was never [...]

The Bible Version Selection Tool aims to take some of the grunt work out of choosing your translation. The short survey offers suggestions on how well the major translations will fit your needs.
In case you’re curious, I currently use an NIV and my results from this quiz were the NET, REB, and [...]

Persecution Blog points out that the Chinese government is going to start printing one million bibles a month.
The article they link to interviews Bob Fu, president of China Aid Association, who doesn’t find this development as rosy as it might seem:
But while Chinese officials have heralded the development, Bob Fu…says the communist government could do [...]

Another inspiring story from the internet:
Back in November of 2004, Peter Williamson started reading the bible one chapter at a time. He set a rule for himself that he would never read more than two chapters a day (for the inevitable times when he would get behind). He also blogged his thoughts on [...]

Some of you hate grammar, probably most of you. It’s boring, it’s tricky, there are rules for everything, and most of them can be broken. I just happen to be the kind of person who diagrams confusing phrases and sentences in his head. So, Kathy’s post at the Carnival in my mind [...]

Some interesting thoughts on our view of the bible from a recent Ooze article. You’ll need to be familiar with the concept of an ephod, which you can read about here. And the author’s main argument comes from Judges 8:27 (click here for all of chapter 8):
Gideon made a sacred ephod from the [...]

Mission Network News reports on the sickening amount of bibles we have laying around compared to other countries.
I’ve been using the same dark blue NIV for nigh on ten years. I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve looked at those cool duotone NRSV’s with a small modicum of jealously. And then [...]