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Bible Translation and Justice
By: John R. Kohlenberger III | September 1, 2007
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy: Gender and Equality in the Bible and our Culture
Unstoppable
By: Megan Greulich | March 5, 2007
“We’re in good company then,” replied Peter Furler, founder and lead singer of internationally-renowned Christian recording artists “newsboys,” after I explained what we do at Christians for Biblical Equality. “Yes, I like that.”
The Living Language of Worship
By: Paul Westermeyer | December 5, 2006
Inclusive language—language hospitable to all people and the whole creation—has perplexed the church in our generation. Some people have radically rewritten hymn texts, some have stubbornly opposed any changes at all, and some have sought a middle ground.
"A Genius of a Woman"
By: Martha Ann Kirk | September 5, 2006
Without the work of a generous widow, millions of people may have gone without a good translation of the Bible for centuries. This woman had a profound hunger for the word of God, boundless care for the needy, courage to cross cultural boundaries based on gender, ethnicity, and class, and gospel vision to put the [...]
The Doctrine of God and Inclusive Language
By: Charles Read | August 1, 2005
Inclusive Language and God
...But Words Can Never Hurt Me
By: John R. Kohlenberger III | June 5, 2005
“Daddy, why does God only like boys?” My eight-year-old daughter surprised me with her theological question. We attended a conservative, evangelical church and she was in third grade in a Christian grade school—what were they teaching her?
Women Illuminating the Word
By: Joanne Nystrom Janssen | June 5, 2005
When Minneapolis-based calligrapher and graphic designer Diane von Arx Anderson was invited to work on The Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten illuminated Bible in 500 years, it did not ever cross her mind to refuse.
Transformed by a New Translation
By: Deborah M. Gill | June 5, 2005
The following story comes from my own life. It celebrates God’s faithfulness to a daughter who longed for her mother to know the joy of encountering God’s Spirit in Scripture.
Can the “Father of Lights” Give Birth?
By: Jeff Miller | January 31, 2005
Regular readers of Priscilla Papers will be familiar with those standard biblical texts one points to when discussing feminine imagery for God. We read, for example, of God extending a mother’s care in Isaiah 66:13, “As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you” (nrsv). Similarly, Jesus longs to offer such [...]
Today's New International Version
By: Craig L. Blomberg | February 1, 2004
In the spring of 2002, Zondervan and the International Bible Society released the latest work of the ongoing Committee on Bible Translation (CBT), Today's New International Version (TNIV) of the New Testament. The Old Testament is slated for release in 2005. Approximately 7% of the text is changed from the last American revision of the NIV, published in 1984.