Next month, the Christian Courier and several respected academic bodies in Toronto will collaborate in a conference titled Re-enchanting the World: Philosophy, Spirituality, Ecology and the Arts. The document that was circulated to invite potential contributors lists a wide array of relevant contemporary thinkers and a few older ones, mostly German philosophers of the turn…
In his introduction to his graphic novel which imagines the possible stories and interactions Jesus – whom he calls Yeshua, his Hebrew name – might have had on the Emmaus Road, author Matt Mikalatos asserts that comic books and the Bible have much in common: “Pretty much every story you like comes in comic form…
Location, location, location are the principles of real estate value. Context, context, context are the fundamentals of interpretation. When context is ignored, texts are manipulated to fit an agenda. This is what happened with the Christian Reformed Church’s Synodical Human Sexuality Report (HSR). It has caused chaos in the denomination. Literary Context The first context…
Can there be resurrection /
among the ruins? /
Dare we imagine new life /
rising from these streets of death?
On the ground, feeling like I had been shot in the leg, I kept repeating one word: “sh*t.” I had just badly pulled my calf muscle exiting the batter’s box in senior softball. This would end my play for a few weeks. I was frustrated. Was it okay to express my frustration like this? I…
Because Nancy and I are both academics, we have more books in our house than some of the smaller branches of the Hamilton Public Library. Among these we have myriad copies of the Bible in different translations in English and other languages. Already when I was in high school, I used my allowance to purchase…
In 1998 my family arrived in Kenya, sent there by Wycliffe Bible Translators Canada. A year later, Wycliffe declared Vision 2025: an ambitious goal to start a translation of Scripture in every language that still needed one by the year 2025. I grew up hearing about this audacious goal and catching wind of the occasional…
For the March issue’s theme on Translation, CC’s Editor interviewed Dr. Albert M. Wolters, emeritus Professor of Religion at Redeemer University and a biblical scholar who translated one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here, Dr. Wolters tells the story of being invited to view the actual Copper Scroll in Jordan and what happened after he…
In the age of Google translate, learning a second language might seem like a thing of the past. I hope not! Let me explain why, for humans, translation is not optional. Most of us think of translation in linguistic terms – interpreting an idea in one language and expressing it in another. Understood more broadly,…
Blessed (greatly honoured) are the mourners. (Matt. 5:4) Some time ago, I told a friend that I often do the children’s message in my church. My friend said, “Oh, I hope that the stories you tell are always happy because children shouldn’t have to feel sad.” Last August I was very sad. I attended the…
We had two hours to fill, my youngest son and I, before an appointment. He suggested the museum. It was nearby and something we’d both enjoy exploring, he argued. An easy win.He is eleven years old now and I’m not sure we’d been to the museum like this – just the two of us –…
I’ve long been aware of a problem in Christian leadership circles: that it is far too easy for Christian organizations to maintain the status quo, to simply try and maintain equilibrium, to ignore a problem, to turn a blind eye from the evidence that has made clear that the organization is faltering. It’s why the…
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