yet more phon fun

Tomorrow I’m flying to Germany for another conference with a phonology flavour – my slides are still under construction, suggesting my panic levels should be higher than they are, and I still need to decide what to read on the plane and train. And pack. Should be back online at the end of the [...]

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swept off my feet

You know, some time roughly around the end of 2007, I realised that I needed to make two important changes in my life. I needed to stop spending money, and stop eating so much.
And then I thought: ‘Heeyyyyy!’
Or sort of. Anyway, the weight loss programme has not been measurably successful so far, in part because [...]

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preachers, be impressed

John Kennedy lists five great facts:
1. That the author of the gospel is God – that the grace and the message are “of God.” 2. That it is “concerning his Son Jesus Christ.” 3. That the death of Christ appears prominently in the light of the gospel. 4. That it is about salvation that God [...]

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my friend’s bible

One day in Edinburgh:

Keep watching, keep watching, right at the end…

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extraordinary apology

So David Milliband has been telling the Commons that the Americans did use British territory in the process of extraordinary renditions. (Report here, eg.)
Everything about extraordinary renditions stinks, and it is hugely disturbing to think that the UK could be involved in any way. (Even if our only role was that our permission didn’t need [...]

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salvation is within

People keep ending up here via the search term ’salvation is within’ – where does it come from? I did use the phrase (here) – in the context of discussing one of several negative features of a particular school of thought.
People, inwards is the last direction to look for salvation. Nothing inside us but sin, [...]

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feel-good phonology

Dan Silverman’s Critical Introduction to Phonology is full of things that I wish I’d seen explicitly stated all in one place long ago. He puts down informally and with the greatest of ease concepts and positions which you find little sustained support for elsewhere in the phonology literature. It’s a critical introduction, which means [...]

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in us and for us

The provision of salvation for sinners includes not only a work done in us, but also a work done for us.
What needs to be done in a sinner is to give them a new nature (‘create in me a clean heart, renew a right spirit within me’) – bringing to life the soul that was [...]

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last night i left the office in daylight

I even have a picture to prove it, but unfortunately not available for posting right at the moment. It was a triumphant moment, though dusk and quite chilly.
I’ll have more time to think/write here soon I hope.
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source, ground, method, etc

Thomas Watson explores the Shorter Catechism’s answer to the question, ‘What is justification?’ in the following sequence of questions and answers in his book, A Body of Divinity, first published 1692 for use by the general public. The style of the whole book is practical and devotional – ie not a comprehensive theological treatment of [...]

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