Idle musings of a bookseller

Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN

Thursday, May 29, 2008

So, what is happening?

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Basically, nothing. We arrived in Minneapolis Monday morning after driving through the night. That same afternoon, Joel and I went up to Gra...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

And they're off!

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Wow, what a weekend, and its only Sunday afternoon. We were at some friends Friday night and returned to no less than 5 messages on the answ...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Humor for a Friday

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I was looking over a book we recently got, entitled Doing Business with Germans . There are some cartoons, but this one hit my funny bone on...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

What a waste

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I've been a bit busy of late, creating the new Biblical Studies Resource catalog. The titles need to be chosen before we leave for Ryan...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Information or transformation?

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The Heresy has an interesting comment on ministry: In conventional ministry the life blood of ministry is information. The underlying ass...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Rapture Ready?

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The other day, Ben Myers published a long review of the book Rapture Ready! . I am quoting a long excerpt from his review, but even so, y...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

A publishing parable

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I like this, from IVP's chief editor , Andy Le Peau: The key personnel gathered. “Listen,” said the publisher. “A publisher went out to...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Where's the focus?

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Scot McKnight was in South Africa last week, so he had some guest posters. One in particular stood out to me, the one on Friday : I spent s...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Have we arrived?

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Joel over at Grace Roots has a good post on arriving: My point here is that I did have some sort of a sense that I had "arrived...

A truly interesting book

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This book caught my eye in the latest Columbia University catalog: From Student to Scholar A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor by Steve...
Monday, May 12, 2008

Social action

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I ran across this post the other day from Dan Kimball about social action: What I am wondering about, is how do we avoid patterns of the p...
Thursday, May 08, 2008

All quiet

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Well, not really. I've been a bit busy of late, between tilling and planting—both raspberries and trees, and mowing and... Wow, I had fo...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Virtual sin

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Out of Ur has a great observation about the newest Grand Theft Auto video game: Do you suspect we’ll see Christians picketing Game Stop an...
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Genesis one

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Oh, I love it! A nice discussion is going on over at Ancient Hebrew Poetry . John posted this morning on what is going on in Genesis 1. H...
Friday, May 02, 2008

Eisenbrauns' May sales

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May is here, and so are our new clearance and monthly sale items. We are running a clearance on some pretty neat items, like Child's Ex...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Seminary

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Just a Guy at Going to Seminary.com has an interesting post entitled "Failing Seminary for the Glory of God." Provocative title, ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

That $600 check

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Out of Ur has an interesting take on the government economic stimulus checks: “I thought that spending my check from the government was su...
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Monday, April 28, 2008

Concordance or commentary?

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I was visiting a competitor's website today and noticed an interesting thing. They have the "People who bought this also bought thi...
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Where's the problem?

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Out of Ur has a recent post which compares the "emerging/emergent church" to the movie Cloverfield . So much energy has been dev...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Real Peace

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Tödt, paraphrasing Bonheoffer's “peace sermon” on August 28. 1934: “Brothers in Christ cannot take up arms against one another, for they...
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I'm a freelance editor/proofreader in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.
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