Translating Scripture is a notoriously difficult enterprise. Not only can someone confront the challenge of rendering ancient idioms and vocabulary into a modern one, there is the perennial debate between dynamic equivalence and a literal translation of Sacred Scripture. Personally,…
The Second Commandment, that of not taking the Lord’s name in vain, is, like all the Ten Commandments, a summary of a deeper, tangled web of sinful thoughts, actions and tendencies which plague fallen humanity. For example, we all know…
One of the benefits I believe that comes with age and the general disintegration of the body is that, like it or not, life teaches us to slow down from time to time. I like to joke with people that…