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If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper is the Mad Tea Party. The world says, Mind your own business, and Jesus says, There is no such thing as your own business. The world says, Follow the wisest course and be a success, and Jesus says, Follow me and be crucified. The world says, Drive carefully - the life you save may be your own - and Jesus says, Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. The world says, Law and order, and Jesus says, Love. The world says, Get, and Jesus says, Give. In terms of the world's sanity, Jesus is crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks he can follow him without being a little crazy too is labouring less under the cross than under a delusion. "We are fools for Christ's sake," Paul says, faith says - the faith that ultimately the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men, the lunacy of Jesus saner than the grim sanity of the world.

- Frederick Buechner (cited in Rumours of Another World by Philip Yancey)

Those who have read Rotundus for some time will quite likely be aware that one of my pet peeves is the restrictions placed on the usage of Bible translations by the copyright owners (I'd like to see as close as possible to a public domain license here).

While it's licensing terms are not ideal, the NET Bible (which I've written about on here before) is one translation that tries to take a more open approach to copyright and seems to have a translation team with reasonable credentials. Anyways, I figured that it was about time that I put my money where my mouth is and so forked out the money a week or two ago for a printed copy of that translation, which arrived mid-week in the mail. While not dubbed a "study bible" this thing does have an impressive number of notes included (60,932 to be exact)

One thing that I noticed after getting this thing in the mail was just how much additional content their website, Bible.org has. They have a series on the canonization of scripture (etc.) that sounds like it'll be worth a listen.

"Man accidentally divorces wife in sleep"

Over the last week it seems that people are finally starting to clue in that the grad student life is one of school year round. The summer is research time by and large, so at least it's a change of pace from attending or teaching classes (although no TAing means little money to spare). Call it summer number 4 in school, or perhaps number 5 if you'd classify my 2003 summer at TRIUMF in the same category.