Parchment & Pen Blog

I think this video encapsulates the proverb quite well. “Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.” – Proverbs 26:4

Here are some of the more infamous and fun mistakes that translators and printers have made throughout the years. “Wife-Beaters’ Bible” (Matthew’s Bible, 1537): A footnote to I Peter 3:7 is rendered “And if she be not obedient and healpeful unto him, endevoureth to beat the fear of God into her head, that thereby she may be [...]

Dear Homo sapiens, This has been a rather unfortunate week for you. Since the world’s attention will turn to London next week with the Summer Olympics, I decided a voice must speak up to make next week more civilized. A vile disease spread through your species this week. I don’t see it as frequently as [...]

Seeing as how Oklahoma City was just voted the manliest city, I thought I would begin to explore what makes the manliest theologian. Here are some criteria: 1. Must be a man. Sorry ladies. There is a petition out there to lift this criteria and redefine the basic DNA of manliness, but the overwhelming support [...]

By Carrie Hunter We Evangelicals have a reputation to uphold. We cannot, under any circumstance, be confused with Them. Them of course being those crazy, unsophisticated, hard-line, uncharitable, literalistic, mean-spirited, dogmatic, absolute-certainty-possessing, Fundamentalists. So in order to avoid being even remotely confused with Them, here is a helpful checklist you should keep on hand at all [...]

(Lisa Robinson) Well, its happened again, rumors of liberalism infiltrating the church.  This is bad, very bad and nothing to be remotely associated with.  It is a sure sign that you have one foot out the door of orthodoxy and will soon abandon the tenets of the faith.  So I’ve come up with a list [...]