Christians and Social Metrics I recently read another book by Brian McLaren, Do I Stay Christian?, and encountered an incredible set of statistics showing states with high church attendance scoring low on social metrics. While I’m not from Missouri, the Show-Me State, I must have some close relatives from the region because I certainly had…
There are many different definitions—perhaps drastically differing definitions—of the words postmodern and/or postmodernity—and what that implies for today’s world. As Kevin J. Vanhoozer says, “Those who attempt to define or to analyze the concept of postmodernity do so at their own peril.”[2] Yet if we’re using the same word for multiple concepts we’re in worse trouble. The problem is shown in a somewhat circular fashion with the postmodern understanding that “Definitions may appear to bask in the glow of impartiality, but they invariably exclude something and hence are complicit, wittingly or not, in politics. A definition of postmodernity is as likely to say more about the person offering the definition than it is of ‘the postmodern’.”…
I have always wondered about the many, many translations of the Bible. Why so many? How are they different? So I spent some time researching this to satisfy my curiosity. Since I spent a considerable amount of time collecting this information, I thought others might find it interesting as well. And so here it is: