Arutz-7 has the results of a new survey of American Jews. According to a new American Jewish Year Book survey, there are currently 6.4 million Jews in the United States – about a million more than in Israel…. About 2.2 percent of the US population is Jewish, according to American Jewish Year Book statistics. New… Read More »
I don’t know how you get your daily news wrap-up, but I don’t get mine from either television or radio. The Internet is much faster (that is, I can read faster than watch/listen). There’s a ton of sites out there but what I just realized I have been reading for about 10 years(!) is Today’s… Read More »
A graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report is being put online a chapter a day starting today. If you ever wanted to know what happened, this looks like the easiest way to do it. Very interesting.
The new location for this blog (www.ToddBolen.com) is intended to make this blog location easier to remember for my friends. It is not a move to make this a more public blog; it is still a personal blog, intended for my friends and former students. Others may find and read, and I can’t stop them,… Read More »
Here’s the “word cloud” for this blog, showing the most popular words used here. No surprises, I don’t think. HT: Dr. Cathey
South Dakota just became my favorite state.
I’m sorry for not blogging lately. Whenever I have had downtime in recent days, thoughts of Philip and his family crowd out other thoughts, and I’m not ready to share anything else here in that regard. The service yesterday was very nice, though I had to leave the reception early to pick up the semester… Read More »
Forgive me for posting twice on this in one week, but it has been much on my mind and I finally found this picture that I had been looking for. We took it at a picnic in IBEX Park in the summer of 2004. Philip’s family is the front row (except for the boy in… Read More »
One of the blogs that I follow casually is the Better Bibles Blog. Ever since I was the only one carrying a non-NASB translation around TMC (and later TMS), I have had to defend my choice of preferred translation. Today I see a post about the ESV and TNIV. I use neither, but both have… Read More »
There are a number of interesting items in a recent email from Sovereign Grace Ministries. They (finally) have a new CD available: Worship God Live. The leader of Sovereign Grace is C. J. Mahaney and he and his wife recently gave a series of talks at the church pastored by Lance Quinn, formerly of GCC.… Read More »