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Cell Phones, Silence, and Solitude: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World

BibleMesh, The Bible + Culture / March 16, 2020

“Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.” ~ Paul Goodman During my 16 years in the classroom, I’ve witnessed the unbelievably rapid transformation of mobile phone technology. At one point, I overheard a brutally honest conversation between a group of senior boys. They felt […]

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Male and Female He Created Them

BibleMesh, Culture, The Bible + Culture / March 4, 2020

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 (ESV) In April 2016, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that public schools may not discriminate against students on the basis of gender identity. Ruling in favor of a

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Transgenderism in the Ancient World

The Bible + Culture, The Bible + Life / February 18, 2020

As Clement looked around his cosmopolitan city, the open displays of transgenderism broke his heart. Grown men wore bleach-blonde feminine hairstyles, donned see-through women’s clothing, smelled of perfume, and had their bodies shaved in public salons where passersby could observe the spectacle. Though males biologically, these men “detest[ed] the bloom of manliness,” as Clement put

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The Compassion of Early Christians

BibleMesh, By Matt Crawford, The Bible + Culture / February 7, 2020

The last few years have seen a fair share of books arguing that religion is the cause behind all that is wrong with the world. Although the Christian Church has undoubtedly had its hand in a number of morally dubious activities over the years, a more historical perspective suggests that this is only one side

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Charles Simeon: Influence that Affects Eternity

BibleMesh, The Bible + Culture, The Bible + Life / January 30, 2020

On Saturday November 19th 1836, Charles Simeon (1759-1836) was buried in a vault in the world-famous chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. Despite wanting a simple funeral, his was probably the most remarkable the town had seen. Every shop was closed and University lectures were suspended. An enormous procession saw eight Masters of colleges and

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The Decline of Biblical Languages

The Bible + Culture / January 22, 2020

In 1816, Harvard University published a circular letter in response to enquiries about admissions standards for ministry students. Candidates for admission, it said, “must be thoroughly acquainted with the grammar of the Latin and Greek languages” and “be able properly to construe and parse any portion” of the Greek New Testament.1 Fast forward to the

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