Posted on Apr 16th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Read This Article »
Everyone loves secret societies. In the third grade, my friends and I started our own secret club. I was number three in charge.
The Freemasons seem to be the most talked about secret society, yet its hard to find someone who knows a lot about them. Dr. Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said that he believes that masonry is incompatible with Christianity. If you are interested, then TheIrvins.com has a pretty interesting story about his encounters with members of the Freemasons.
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Posted on Apr 13th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Read This Article »
Today we will talk about how to offend your readers in a single post. See below…
At an elementary school here in Dallas, an eight year old submitted the following for a writing assignment. It is entitled “Thanks from Jesus” and you may have to decide where you think punctuation is required. I love the matter-of-fact writing, especially in the first sentence. My question is what do you do when you’ve hit rock bottom at only eight years old?
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Ever wondered why Bible’s are printed with two columns per page? Of course you haven’t but I came across it at the ESV Blog.
Double columns substantially reduce the space required for poetry because many lines of poetry fit on a single, shorter line; a single-column typesetting means a lot of empty space on a page filled with poetry. Poetry comprises about 25% of the Bible, so you can imagine the amount of space saved with two columns.
You would think that two columns would waste space but apparently switching to one column increases the page count by 10 - 25%.
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