Christ is everywhere. God, help us see!
Acts 2:15 is hilarious to start with, because what just happened? Oh, right, a bunch of people came pouring out of this house and they were all talking at once, and yet absolutely everyone could understand them perfectly. If that happened, I would not be thinking “these people must be drunk”.
Read MoreInspired by my experience with Kenzie, I set out to explore how other translations approached this challenge.
Spoiler: I was not impressed.
Read More“What do we learn about God from this verse?” we asked the class. It was our standard question.
There was a long pause, which was normal. Maybe the question would go away if no one answered? Alas, it did not. It never did. And so finally, hesitantly, one student held up her hand.
“I think maybe Satan is God’s brother,” Kenzie answered.
Read MoreThe thing that I call “verse art” started in the family of ideas from a book called Praying in Color (which is really cool, you should check it out). What I love most about Praying in Color is that it breaks open the idea of prayer as formal, written, or “just right.” Drawing, doodling, and coloring aren’t prayer because you add words, they are prayer all by themselves. I love words. I never (previously) knew I needed to be free of them to pray.
Read MoreIn the 21st century, a lot of people are going to assume that if you are talking about “his brother”, you are talking about the male sibling of a male person.
So, in order to translate this one very short phrase acceptably into modern English, it is necessary to compromise.
Read MoreThere is a poem by A. A. Milne which we can reproduce here in its entirety because it was published in 1924 and so now it's in the public domain.
Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn't any
Other stair
Quite like
It.