Jacob Edson

"I never say this" —Person who often says this

Not to mention how unwieldy it is as an acronym. Will the Catholic version be NRSVUECE? What about when they update it again? NRSVUUE? It quickly becomes ridiculous; they could have been like every other translator and simply started printing NRSVs with the new content.

Well deserved! A powerful and consistently compelling read.

How Psalm 91 Helps Explain the Global Mood | Bible Gateway News & Knowledge Have you been feeling more anxious recently? You’re not alone. Over the past decade, Psalm 91 has been climbing the ranks of most-popular verses on Bible Gateway.

One third of Bible Gateway's top 25 most viewed verses worldwide in 2024 were from Psalm 91. Ten years ago, at least in the U.S., it didn't even make the top 100. Here are a few thoughts about what that rise could mean about our national and global condition.

That is a large dividing line between evangelicals and, well, everyone else — but I'd say the fact that nearly a third say it's *not* wrong and support marriage, contra public perception (and internal pressure) is the big story here.

In terms of 2024 releases, if you haven't already read them: Marilynne Robinson's "Reading Genesis" and Nancy French's "Ghosted" (which someone else also mentioned) — very different books, both very worthy reads (or listens).

Criminally underappreciated. It's hard to imagine a more perfect theological novel

How can you not be impressed by the best graphics the original PlayStation has to offer

These Nuns Were Excommunicated but Won’t Leave Their Convents The Poor Clares of Belorado, in northern Spain, are digging in their heels in a battle of wills over real estate with the Catholic Church.

Traditionalist Nazi nuns vs. progressive ecologist priests/Pope is such an excellent inversion of the trope. Begging for a film adaptation

And the Hebrew "ruach" is feminine, so there's another good option

100% — and worth noting the practice is only a few centuries old, not at all endemic to the text

Someone I respect wrote recently he doesn't like people using the impersonal "it" for the Holy Spirit (rather than "he"), which got me thinking.

Unfortunately "he" is not biblical as πνεῦμα is a neuter noun. The good news is, there's a gender-neutral pronoun in English, too: singular "they." #lfg

Correction, Eternals is the most underrated superhero movie and it's not even close. Beyond that I see nothing incriminating here, you're free to go

Local Church Full Of Brainwashed Idiots Feeds Town’s Poor Every Week MACON, GA—Sources confirmed today that the brainwashed morons at First Baptist Assembly of Christ, all of whom blindly accept whatever simplistic fairy tales are fed to them, volunteer each Wednesday ...

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At Bible Study for the Homeless, a Search for Meaning Religion is often overlooked as a factor in the lives of the needy, but those who gather at a center in Virginia say it helps sustain them.

A remarkable tonal followup to the Onion's all-time classic, "Local Church Full Of Brainwashed Idiots Feeds Town’s Poor Every Week." Nice job speaking to your base @nytimes.com

Always a pleasure to publish your work, Scot!

Pay no attention to the man behind the temple curtain