On the Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: Some Common Interpretations Offered
The question of how shall we interpret the Ecclesiastes is in some ways related to the larger issue of Old Testament interpretation. Ecclesiastes has suffered g...
Month: May 2006
Quiet Time Guilt
This writing by Greg Johnson really rang a bell with me: It’s ironic, but the Quiet Time has become the number one cause of defeat among Bible-believing Chris...
On The Interpretation of Ecclesiastes: The Value of the Old Testament in the Christian Church
This is the beginning of a series on my favorite book of the Bible: Ecclesiastes. I plan to write later about the reasons why Ecclesiastes is such a favorite of...
Ed Hurst: Wordless Longings
My brother and namesake Rev. Ed Hurst has the rare gift of writing with Biblical wisdom, clarity, sensitivity and uncompromising force. I regard him as a modern...
A Hidden Tax on Foreigners
This is a pet peeve of mine and I am going to rant against it. Please bear with me. I hate tipping. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I hate it. My disli...
Spammed (again…)
The frequency and volume of spamming directed towards this blog has increased enormously over the last week. I had to alter several parameters of my setup in or...
A Primer on Hispanic Names
This is a short post aimed at helping my English-speaking readers on how to correctly parse and distinguish Hispanic names. Given the facts of an increasingly g...
Ed Hurst: The School of Holy Cynicism
Sometimes the message you want to convey is much better said by someone else in such a way that adding something further looks like an offense. Such is the case...
Upcoming articles
Two “big” posts are getting ready in the qeue: the first one is a book review (that is, the second one of my vacation series) and the other is more ...
Autumn cleaning
I know that most of my readers are in the Northern Hemisphere, where the tradition of spring cleaning is in full swing. I live “down there”, however...
Learning how to program
Learning computer programming has been one of my secret longings for so many years. I go back to the eighties, doing a stone age BASIC littered with POKEs and P...
Neo-Orthodoxy or Fundamentalism?
In a recent post, Tim lamented the fact that some self-labeled “Fundamentalists” had their priorities wrong. He specifically cited an instance where...
Back from Curitiba
I am happy to say that I made it back from Curitiba. The Conference was very good, and lived up to my expectations: it would be a real blessing for my brethren,...