Some time ago, my sister Jenny wrote a song about language. Specifically about the language(s) of the Bible. 
The song, titled For Sweden, can now be downloaded (free of charge) or listened to via streaming from the Hamoreh website. Have a listen here.
Check out these anti-theft Macbook sleeves. Yeah they’re anti-theft unless someone walks by who likes to read newspapers, then your screwed. But how many people like to read newspapers – really? Cool idea though.
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Olive Tree Bible Software has released the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (Hebrew Bible) and the 27th Edition of the Nestle-Aland Text of the Greek New Testament for the iPhone.
We love it when two of our loves, namely anything Mac and anything Biblical Language related, come together!
You can read a review of the two apps here.
And for another example of our two loves coming together go here.
The August 9th Issue of the L.A. Times featured an article by David L. Ulin entitled The Lost Art of Reading.
We highly recommend stilling and silencing yourself for 10 minutes to read this article. Here’s a few excerpts:
…these days, I find myself driven by the idea that in their intimacy, the one-to-one attention they require, books are not tools to retreat from but rather to understand and interact with the world.
..It isn’t a failure of desire so much as one of will. Or not will, exactly, but focus: the ability to still my mind long enough to inhabit someone else’s world, and to let that someone else inhabit mine. Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves…. In order for this to work, however, we need a certain type of silence, an ability to filter out the noise.
Such a state is increasingly elusive in our over-networked culture, in which every rumor and mundanity is blogged and tweeted. Today, it seems it is not contemplation we seek but an odd sort of distraction masquerading as being in the know. Why? Because of the illusion that illumination is based on speed, that it is more important to react than to think, that we live in a culture in which something is attached to every bit of time.
Read the whole thing here.
PLEASE don’t miss this article, There are Ghettos, and There are Ghettos 
by Dr. Jamie Johns of Hamoreh Ministries.
This past week Russell Moore interviewed artist Andrew Peterson on the topic of the importance of telling stories to children and the cultivation of a biblically informed moral imagination.
click here to listen to the interview.
Here’s a couple of excerpts:
From Peterson on how children see the world:
“When I walk through the woods with my kids, it’s not just a walk through the woods; it turns into a walk in ‘the forbidden forest.’ So being around kids and rememering what it’s like to look at the world in this way is a really healthy thing. It’s one of the many layers, I think, behind when Jesus says, ‘The kingdom of heaven is made up of such as these’—there’s a lot you can get out of that—but one of those things is I just think kids remember that the world is a dangerous, harrowing, magical, beautiful, wonderful place. And we lose some of that as adults.”
From Moore, who gives his take on monsters under the bed and how they relate to a clear communication of the gospel:
“The kids know—they instinctively know—that they’re living in a universe in which something’s gone awry. It’s not our job—as parents, or as Sunday school teachers—to disengage that. It’s our job to come in an to provide an answer to that. Yeah, you’re living in an enchanted world. Yeah, you’re living in a haunted world. You’re living in a world hauntedby demonic powers. That’s exactly right—what you deeply fear is indeed the case… Your worrying about the monster under the bed isn’t unreasonable; there’s a monster under the fabric of the cosmos. Instead, we give them a story that provides the only comfort that really is lasting comfort; it’s a comfort that the enemies have been defeated.”
Those of you with kids (and those of you who will one day have kids) will want to check out Peterson’s book On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: Adventure. Peril. Lost Jewels. and the Fearsome Toothy cows of Skree. And Peterson’s forthcoming novel North! Or be Eaten: Wild Escapes. A Desperate Journey. and the ghastly Fangs of Dang.
Also you will want to read this excellent article by David Mills entitled Enchanting Children.
HT: BTW
“ABUJA, Nigeria — Radical Islamist militants opposed to Western-style education in Nigeria launched attacks on police in three northern towns Monday, expanding a campaign of violence that has killed at least 55 people so far, police and witnesses said.”
You can read the full article here: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/07/27/ap6704213.html
No, this is not some spiritual post about the trash in our hearts…this is about the trash that is covering the streets of South Africa! Yesterday as I was walking to teach english class I noticed all of the street trash cans were turned on their side, and garbage was covering the streets. “Odd” I thought to myself. But then, street after street there was trash everywhere. “Sanitary” was my next sarcastic thought…
According to the news, all South Africans can expect some dirty days ahead….http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=aSQPw4U8rVPI
“Awesome.” (final sarcastic thought of this entry)
This past Saturday we were afforded the opportunity of driving down the coastline of the Cape Peninsula until the road ran out. This place is called Cape Point / Cape of Good Hope. While the tip of the Cape Peninsula isn’t the southern most tip of the continent of Africa (but it’s close!), it is the southern most tip of the western cape. As we stood on Cape Point, with the Atlantic Ocean on our right, the Indian Ocean on our left, the entire African Continent behind us and the Continent of Antarctica somewhere out ahead, we couldn’t remember a time that we’d felt so small!
Here’s a few pics of our adventure!
Although we didn’t take this one, we thought we’d add it for some perspective of we were.
Would the possibility of someone selling a Bible for food deter you from giving them a Bible, motivate you to give them a Bible, or have no effect on you?
