James Duguid 𓀐 𓆉

"Every honest author writes for nobody or everybody. Whoever writes for some particular group does not deserve to be read." - Schlegel

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New on the blog: Does God make the hinds to calve in Psalm 29? If so, how?

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@ehutchinson1513 Greek is dividing the text as:
וּמֵעוֹלָם עַד־עוֹלָם אַתָּה

And taking אל as a negative for the following clause.

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@KenShepherd https://t.co/D6LMzSasX2

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This week I'm brushing off the third sermon I ever preached, on Psalm 29. Delighted to find in my old draft a digression identifying the "sons of God" in Psalm 29 with the "sons of God" in Genesis 6.

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@DanielLant54681 @lrj0hns1 @RFBWCF Agreed. I’m intending to go back and watch the floor debate from the livestream at some point.

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@DanielLant54681 @lrj0hns1 @RFBWCF I agree that the edit “titles connected to” > “titles of” seems more precisely restrictive, suggesting the logic of the edit was such as you describe. The title of “deaconess” is not even mentioned in the “Whereas” clauses of the overture - hard to argue intent to exclude it.

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@DanielLant54681 @lrj0hns1 @RFBWCF Here’s what we put in the book:

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@RFBWCF @lrj0hns1 I’m on my Presbytery’s Committee for Review of Session Records and I can’t imagine a debate on the floor of Presbytery every time I need to check what’s up with a Session clerk

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@lrj0hns1 @RFBWCF I thought about pulling it from omnibus but I dislike interrupting the procedure before Presbytery has time to answer. Let RPR do its work. If we have a response of "unsatisfactory" on a clearly unordained, distinct "deaconess," I'll pull it from omnibus and we will see (2/2)

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@lrj0hns1 @RFBWCF I tend to agree with this. The constitution doesn't say you can't use the title "deaconess." Presbytery needs to be clear it is unordained and not conflated with deacon though. (1/2)

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@KenShepherd I was thinking about this as I checked out candidates for the recent DC primary election. One had a "scandal" which was basically that he supported a bad sports-betting scheme that cost DC tax revenue. No candidate to stand against this vice.

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@JoeGibbons84 We could always change the rules, but again, culture change is a lower bar (1/3)!

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@JoeGibbons84 If that was the wrong decision, you really should take issue with the whole body. I have some sympathy there. But I think the way forward is to argue for a culture of greater deliberation. You only need to convince one third of the commissioners in a given assembly.

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@ReformedTrain @MeltonDuncan If I remember correctly, the speaker had been "recognized" but passed over because his was going to be a speech "for" following another speech "for." The moderator was following a policy that we should return to any speaker recognized but not yet heard if the question was called.

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@RFBWCF You probably could have coasted for a while

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In that day, Israel will be one third alongside Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of Hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be my people Egypt, and the work of my hands Assyria, and my inheritance Israel." (Isa 19:24-25)
maybe America too? #pcaga