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When Matthew Paul Turner was five, his parents informed him that they were becoming Baptists.  And not just your regular-old, run-of-the-mill, Just-As-I-Am, Billy-Graham-type Baptists, either.  Independent Fundamental Baptists.  The kind that think the Southern Baptists are liberal.  The kind that don’t like Billy Graham because he’s “too ecumenical”.  Think Bob Jones University.  Think Pensacola Christian [...]

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As promised, I chose an entry at random using random.org (screen shot at the left), and the winning entry, out of 28 entries, was entry 2, belonging to Justa!  Congratulations, Justa.  I’ll be contacting you via e-mail to get your information so I can send your book to you.
Everyone, stay tuned for another book review [...]

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Matthew Turner is a friend of mine whom I’ve never met, something that is possible in this day of social media. Not long after I “met” Matthew, a series of conversations revealed that we had much in common: we both grew up in a Fundamentalist culture, both went to Christian schools that [...]

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Hermeneutics.  It’s not a word most people throw around every day, but it’s a very important concept nonetheless.
This week, I had to respond to a letter in which lots o’ Scripture was quoted at me.  Ever get one of those?  The first thing I had to do was try to figure out the hermeneutic at [...]

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The old cliché is, the best translation to get is the one that you will read.  In other words, it doesn’t matter if it’s a socko translation:  if you’re not going to read it, it’s not going to do you any good.  While there’s some truth to that, it’s also true that you will find [...]

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Any connection between the Bulgy Bears (Prince Caspian) and Mr. Bultitude (That Hideous Strength)? They remind me of one another. Mr. Bultitude may be my favorite of all of Lewis’ characters.

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the SmockLady tagged me with this meme.
The rules of this game:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
(No cheating!) Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people

Here?s the quote:
Susannah Stone’s first encounter with a zealous sanitary inspector occurred when production moved out of the family bath and [...]

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Mark sent me this link from the New York Times. Thanks, Mark, for letting us know. She will be greatly missed.
Update: please read Laurel’s beautiful tribute to Madeleine L’Engle.

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I know that we are now in the realm of pure preference. When it comes to HP cover art, it’s in the eye of the beholder. Flame me if you must, but here goes:
I don’t care for Mary GrandPr?’s illustrations of the HP series. I just don’t.

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Since that last post, I’ve been thinking about what I said about finding changes in spelling acceptable. I’m not so sure about that anymore. I mean, why change anything at all? We are English speakers and English readers: surely we won’t be thrown by alternate spellings, will we? I personally [...]

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