Davis Sutton

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

"MacArthur spent 30 hours a week preparing sermons and delegated almost all other pastoral responsibilities to the church’s elders and lay leaders" says it all doesn't it

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Handbooks still saying that Biblical Hebrew is basically a VSO language is deeply misleading; this is a function of the morphosyntax of the wayyiqtol, nothing more. Sentences with qatal and pure yiqtol are often SVO or in some cases even a little V2-ish.

If you're a learner or new reader of Greek or Syriac, or if you teach Greek or Syriac, try out the Pearlsong!

In Greek, there's both a late ancient prose text and a Byzantine paraphrase (in a homily); in Syriac, it's a 105-line poem.

Glossaries for both languages are included.

Open-access PDF:

just remembered one of my all-time favorite posts:

“It was a very healthy reciprocal acceptance of suffering,” he said. “Which does not mean being defeated by suffering. Acceptance is not defeat. Acceptance is just awareness.” He smiled in anticipation of the callback: “ ‘You gotta learn to love the bomb,’ ” he said. “Boy, did I have a bomb when I was 10. That was quite an explosion. And I learned to love it. So that's why. Maybe, I don't know. That might be why you don't see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It's that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.” I love the thing that I most wish had not happened. I asked him if he could help me understand that better, and he described a letter from Tolkien in response to a priest who had questioned whether Tolkien's mythos was sufficiently doctrinaire, since it treated death not as a punishment for the sin of the fall but as a gift. “Tolkien says, in a letter back: ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” Colbert knocked his knuckles on the table. “ ‘What punishments of God are not gifts?’ ” he said again. His eyes were filled with tears. “So it would be ungrateful not to take everything with gratitude. It doesn't mean you want it. I can hold both of those ideas in my head.”

when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...

the Baltimore Miracle should be getting as much or more attention as the murder rate drop in El Salvador

Central to the Christian nationalist project is the idea that they represent some silent majority that simply must reclaim its rightful and robbed dominant status, even if by force. But time and time again, the data shows how unpopular their ideas are.

Woah. That is powerful. Thanks for sharing

‘It changes citizens into taxpayers - so individuals become angry at even the notion of public good.’

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

This is deeply sad, especially after my home (western North Carolina) was left devastated by a hurricane just last September. FEMA did indescribably crucial work there. This whole thing is a disaster

Dedicamos la pieza del mes de mayo La Biblia Hebraica de Benito Arias Montano: Un Tesoro en la Biblioteca Tomás Navarro Tomás.
Por Elvira Martín-Contreras (ILC-CSIC)
@emartincontreras.bsky.social
biblioteca.cchs.csic.es/PiezaMes/Pie...

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Spanish ‘tengo un sueño’ means “I have a dream”.

In contrast, ‘tengo sueño’ means “I’m sleepy” (lit. “I have sleep”).

Why does ‘sueño’ mean both “sleep” and “dream”, two very different things?

It’s because ‘sueño’ and ‘sueño’ are different words – with a different etymology.

My graphic explains:

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jesus, have mercy. This is absolutely disgraceful.

The NRSV translation of Luke-Acts is so frustrating.

When Luke-Acts uses the Greek word akribēs in proximity to references to the Pharisees (Acts 22:3; 26:5), NRSV translates it as 'strictly'/'strictest', which to most readers likely implies something negative. But...

The sentence from Tolkien that C.S. Lewis said summed up his entire philosophy of history.

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

Congratulations! What an awesome opportunity!

I hate to say firewooder but I'm left with no other option (real answer I have no clue if there's a word)

That sounds really interesting and (unfortunately) timely. Btw, really appreciating your new book on authorship!

makes sense to me!

Worship of power is the deadliest of idolatries