Keeping Safe on the Net

Keep Your Kids Safe is not only a great site for parents: it has information that will help everybody enjoy the benefits of the internet, while being alert to the problems it poses. This website also tells you about Simon Johnson, its developer's brand new and up-to-date book, which will almost certainly give you some information and tips you had not previously been aware of, and he has generously given one of the book's most important chapters as a free download at the site.

Christian Book Summaries

If you would like to get the gist of some well-known, mostly current Christian books, check out Christian Book Summaries, which has maybe 30 summaries of books such as The Purpose-Driven Life, Boundaries in Marriage and What's So Amazing About Grace?

The summaries can be downloaded in very attractively laid-out pdf files, or you can read them online.

In view of Jim Beale's T-shirt
So many books,
so litle time
this site is a boon.

It is also helpful that you can read books that everyone's talking about, but about which you have reservations, without further increasing the author's bank balance.

Each summary is very well written, easy to follow and about 8 pages long.

But ... I'll still buy stuff!

The most valuable one I've read so far is the summary of

The Doctrines of Grace, by Boice and Ryken.

Interpretation article follow-up

Ahem [clears throat]. In the following issue of Interpretation Journal, Edgar Goodspeed, veteran bible translator, criticised the view of the writer in the previous issue, and also ticked him off for his intemperate language about hard-working bible translators. He argues that translating John 2:4 is not easy, and there is a reason for the variety in the translations.