both religious and non-religious folk get some things confused (don’t we all?).
Text: the bible is a collection of books, has many authors even within the same ‘book’, was transmitted at first orally and then copied by hand over several centuries and finally translated into many languages other than Hewbrew/Aramaic/Greek. It thus represents an account of [...]
Archive for June 24th, 2009
The bible: not the whole truth
Posted in opinions, tagged bible, faith, revelation on Wednesday, 24 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Discovering Jane Austen
Posted in books, tagged emma, Jane austen, mansfield park, northanger abbey, persuasion, pride & prejudice, sense and sensibility on Wednesday, 24 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is no substitute for reading the novels of Jane Austen. I speak as one who has spent his whole life not reading her books until just now. I am aware that there are film and TV adaptations of most of the books: most of these run the risk of becoming the kind of sentimental [...]
