Most of us have seen or heard of Book Boxes, but have you ever seen or heard of a Bible Box? I was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh in 2012. Sometime around 2015, I was supplying the Monday lunch services at the cathedral. It was there, seeing so many people …
By Jake Dell April 23 – Creation – Bibles handed out. Discussed what the Bible is. Is it good for counsel and advice? Tried opening to some random verses to find out. Most did not make sense right away. Hence, we saw that the Bible is not like a fortune cookie but requires study. However, …
by Jake Dell I recently decided to get a new Bible for my own reading. I started with an NIV, then an ESV, and finally came back to the KJV. That is because modern translations (anything after 1881) use a scientific method to reconstruct the source texts. I always knew this, but until now, I …
One of the things that drew me to my current parish was its use of Rite 1. But, I wondered, how many knew why it’s used? For me, it’s not just the beauty of the Elizabethan prose and the continuity of hundreds of years, but the plain declaration of the gospel it makes. For instance, when the …
Here’s a quick English pop-quiz: what is the subject and what’s the verb in this very long sentence? In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias …
