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Codex Sinaiticus Project website goes live July 24, 2008.

photo credit: Chris Kind
I guess it’s not too early to start thinking about going to the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence this November. As of the spring I’m now a member and this will be my first conference should arrangements proceed swimmingly. Online registration ($10 for students!) was supposed to [...]

BBC News has the story:

Archaeologists in Rihab, Jordan, say they have discovered a cave that could be the world’s oldest Christian church.
Dating to the period AD33-70, the underground chapel would have served as both a place of worship and a home.
It is claimed that it was originally used by a group of 70 persecuted Christians [...]

There’s election and there’s election.
Hill and Walton in their A Survey of the Old Testament describe God’s election of Israel as making “the Israelites the people of God only in a revelatory way.” They further clarify by saying, “By this we mean that God chose them as his instrument of revelation.”
The difference between this use [...]

A family friend was asking my mom what her about-to-graduate-from-high-school boyfriend should study in college to prepare for seminary. Through a series of text messages, this is the advice I had my mom relay to the couple:
We need Christians/seminarians/ministers/pastors/missionaries of all backgrounds. If you’re interested in chemistry, by all means go hard after it. If [...]

(HT: Woot)

Convene a panel of bishops to determine the correct canonical position on the question of who makes Philly’s best cheesesteak
Go to Eastern Orthodox cathedral, ring the doorbell, run away giggling
Visit the UN to request that the Papal See be upgraded to a Papal B Minus
Trade outfits with a pauper that, for some reason, looks [...]

I was surprised and delighted to find a sermon/talk hiding in my mp3 player in the Capitol Hill Baptist Church podcast folder. The speaker: my pastor, Andy Davis. He took leave last summer to work on a book on sanctification which I guess he’s had incubating for quite some time. Almost a month ago, at [...]

1 Timothy 2:13-15 (ESV)
For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
And Adam was not deceived
but the woman was deceived
and became a transgressor
Yet she will be saved through childbearing
if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control
“Yet she will be saved through childbearing” makes the most sense in light of the woman becoming a transgressor [...]

At the Duke Socratic Club’s Two Views dialogue on the atonement entitled “How Does Jesus Save Us?” (Feb. 26, 2008) the question was asked of the proponent of penal substitution where the life of Jesus fit in on his view, for it seemed that in this view all that mattered was the death of Jesus, [...]

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge (Rom. 10:2).
Good idea, bad execution. Had I more knowledge about the execution it would have been both a good idea and good execution.
I have acted in a zeal for God but not according to knowledge just like those [...]