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Looks like it was Drout's Quick and Easy Old English, which has the advantage of being pretty cheap.

The Kindle version is OK, but a dead-tree would be nicer (I found myself using bookmarks pretty heavily to refer back to things.)

If you'd like to see a page or two, let me know what you want and I'd be happy to provide.

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bonus: All professors' websites are garbage.

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>Old English Wikipedia

of course that's a thing.

I've been reading a book lately, Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus and I highly recommend it. The parables are picked over a lot, but we don't always think about why Jesus used them. At first glance, we might say that he's using these earthy analogies to make heavenly things easier to understand, but the text says the exact opposite: that he's purposely obfuscating, that ONLY those who have ears to hear will understand, that people will see and not perceive. The parables are not just delivering information to their listeners- they are revealing the hearts of the listener.

Not to go all Stanley Fish on you here, but it's as though Jesus is a reader-response critic who is just as concerned with what the parable says about the person who hears it as he is with the subject matter itself.

Other ideas I found interesting: in the parable of the sower, we're told that the seed is the "word of God", and Capon argues that the synoptics can't be unaware of John's ideas about Jesus being the Word of God. So it's Jesus that gets sown in the hearts of all men, and the parable is not just a morality play on whether "the Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it" or not.

Trying to figure that out. I'm going back over "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and checking out new books like "Cracking the Code" to refresh and challenge myself. Man audio books are great.

I am working on my junk rare magic the gathering cube. I started cataloguing what I have and made a deal with my LGS to get rares. 540 cards is a lot, but I am using 10% common fixing. Of the other 495 cards, nearly half will be multicolor and big beefy dudes. I even picked out how I am going to sleeve it. So this is happening after thinking about it for half a year. Edit: I will probably be using 70 pieces of fixing/ramp, so that will keep the cost down.

Also, Chanukah is coming which is nice. I got Ziva a nice little present which will be exciting.

I suggest you take up smoking. It's a great appetite suppressant and doctors have yet to find one provable negative side effect. Smoke yourself skinny!

Seriously though. It's long been seen as completely okay to mock fat people in our culture for all the reasons you mentioned. Luckily, I think that is starting to change because people are realizing all those other factors such as socioeconomic factors, diseases, etc. do come into play. It may take time, but it seems to me as if the attitude is starting to change.

But combining "peak" physical health with spiritual health is definitely a bit wrong-minded. Some of the greatest saints and mystics have almost starved themselves to death. Not a model of health. Furthermore, I suspect that person is confusing two things. It is generally true that when a person exercises more regularly, they have more energy overall. This individual seems to be confusing a physical "buzz" with spiritual growth.

That can be problematic. Especially as our "spiritual level" is not contingent on how we "feel." Again, some of the greatest mystics and saints have felt constantly and overwhelmingly abandoned, depressed, un-energetic and forgotten. Emotions can be good and useful and they should be integrated into our faith lives. But we should not view them as our "spiritual thermometer."

http://www.amazon.com/The-Brick-Bible-Complete-Set/product-reviews/1626361770/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterBy=addOneStar&showViewpoints=0

>I could not believe how much this mocks the bible and makes fun of it... Ordered it for my son's birthday guessing it would be a fun way to go through the bible. Nope. This is full of lego "gore" pictures and lots of mean faces. So sad...

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> "Children's 'bible' shouldn't contain the 'rape of Dinah', men circumcising themselves or people drowning at Noah's Ark"

I read this book a few years ago, so you'd think I'd be better at describing what all happened. So, you know, if you have a lot of time on your hands and want to read a book about fellowship between Lutheran church bodies in America...have fun?

> A better example would be the Christian kings of England and the laws of England which punished sodomy with death historically.

I read a fascinating book called Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, by an actual historian, (TL;DR they were all gay) which spoke a little about historical social attitudes to homosexuality in England. The author claims that sodomy was rarely punished in England. You were only really likely to be tried for sodomy if they were in court for something else and they wanted to throw the book at you.

The book is well worth a read if you enjoy both pirates and gay people.

Your faith may not be based in science but it can certainly be based in Le Logic and Le Reason.

> Besides, I'm not particularly concerned with the medieval era as such, because that dealt with the particular difficulties of transitioning from a pagan society to a Christian one.

As a Catholic Medievalist myself I'm just going to mention that with the exception of the later Roman Empire and some parts of Northern Europe in the (very) early Middle Ages, this is simply not true. The pagan world was as much a memory then as it was in the Early Modern Era, even if the memory was not too distant of a memory. The transition was long done and Roman temples long either abandoned or replaced with churches for centuries. Read GK Chesterton's biography of Saint Francis of Assisi for a good perspective on it in the language of a layperson. Otherwise I would recommend The Greatest of Centuries by James J. Walsh.

It's obvious that they wouldn't identify as specifically "queer." Nonconforming sexuality clearly existed, however. Diarmaid MacCulloch cites a provocative example within the Oxford Movement in his Silence: A Christian History, and working with categories of silence is a perfectly legitimate element of historical research these days.

To be terribly honest, I'm not especially interested in the rest of your post. I don't worship a God who isn't interested in liberation, and I don't believe God is known outside that context of liberation.

When all is said and done, it's no skin off my nose if I don't convince you of anything. I don't think I will, to be honest. Really, none of this is about you, which is the whole point of my OP. You aren't a part of my church, so while I think you're being an impediment to God's work in your own, my beef isn't with you.

>I suggest looking at the cross for how to fight against things.

Our community took the cross forty-nine times over last June. Matthew Shepard took the cross. At least twenty-one transgender people took the cross last year.

Don't you dare suggest I don't know what the cross is.

BIC

He might actually be right about the two powers though?

Here's the book he's talking about.

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Powers-Heaven-Christianity-Christology/dp/1602585490

There is a whole book on that observation

Was supposed to read it in college for a class... never did