John F. Hobbins over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry has a great little bit about the nature of confessional scholarship nestled in a great gut check post on the complegalitarian debate.
As a confessionally engaged biblical scholar, I have a bottom line: it should be possible to discuss the meaning of biblical texts with the intention of allowing them to speak to us on their own terms, rather than exaggerating their weight when they “score one for our side,” or engaging in damage control when they do not support the position we hold dear.
The complegalitarian blog, which invites actual discussion between comps and egals, invites Completarians to explain what Egalitarians totally do not get (about Complementarians).
Sillyness abounds! Some of you might be ahead or behind the LOLz Cats thing, but I must send along the LOLz Cats Bible! Here is a little bit from John:
1 In teh beginz is teh cat macro, and teh cat macro sez “Oh hai Ceiling Cat” and teh cat macro iz teh Ceiling Cat.2 Teh cat macro an teh Ceiling Cat iz teh bests frenz in teh begins.
3 Him maeks alls teh cookies; no cookies iz maed wifout him.4 Him haz teh liefs, an becuz ov teh liefs teh doodz sez “Oh hay lite.”5 Teh lite iz pwns teh darks, but teh darks iz liek “Wtf.”
Some friends and I have been going through Rich Chrisitans in an Age of Hunger. I think we spend two or three hours discussion the first two chapters and tangetical issues the other night. One of the things we brought up is our lack of knowledge of micro-loan institutions. The Bible Money Matters Blog, while discussing what we can do with out historically abundant wealth, brings up one such micro-loan institution, Kiva.
Update: Cheapham has done a bit of research on micro-loans and suggests Opportunity International as a good micro-loan provider.
