Ben Powell

@catwing Congratulations! 🙂  Is this specific to writing/business or is it personal?

Yeah.  I’ve been trying to find out more about the town my protagonist lives in, but there’s hardly any information about it.  I might have to just go with general info about the time period.

You haven’t read it, have you?

Okay.  It is late. 😉  (You migh…[Read more]

@catwing Cool. 🙂

I’m doing research for a my biblical era novel.  And hitting a lot of dead ends. 😀

@alia *sighs* Oh well.  Good luck on your test!

@valtmy @alia @dekreel @catwing Anyone around?

@seekjustice Ah, sorry. 🙁  Hope you can get some rest later.

College textbooks – no, ALL textbooks – with a few (very few) exceptions, are horrible, boring, uninteresting, nasty, unappealing, confusing, useless, depressing things.

😀

Do you get a clear enough picture of my feelings toward textbooks?

Well, it’s almost two o’clock, so…have…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, you could fall asleep for an hour, couldn’t you?  Doesn’t seem like you’re the kind of girl who needs half an hour to get ready, like me. 😛

There’s a really easy and fun Greek language study guide that I used once.  I was too easily distracted to get all the way through it, but it was so simple and well written that I very m…[Read more]

@seekjustice Well, I’m not actually falling asleep yet.  I’m just a bit sleepy.  But, as always, I might randomly disappear on you. 😀

Ah! 😀 😀 😛  Why in the world would you think that?  Think of all the jokes about putting ministers of different denominations in the room together.

Personally, I would rather not look at what people have to say…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hey, I’m awake…barely. 😛

Whatcha doin’? (Proof that I am half asleep: I am using improper English) (proof that I am half awake: I am using the correct spelling and punctuation for the incorrect English) (proof that I am a writer: I am giving a long explanation of what types of words I use).

@seekjustice

I read the blurbs

Haha!  That reminds me of a quiz I took a few days ago.  It was one of those things that says “we’ll guess your education level by which books you’ve read.”  You know what I mean?  Well, anyway, I had possibly read two or three of the fifty or so books on the list, but I was able to answer something like 95 per…[Read more]

@seekjustice All the Christian Amish fiction?  I thought you didn’t read romance. 😛

Ah, I see.

Actually, most of the people I know who wear head coverings aren’t Amish or Mennonite, though.  Usually they wear them I think because they read the head covering passage and decided that was what they should do, just like my mom.  So it’s not just fo…[Read more]

@seekjustice 😀

Even though we go to a Baptist church most of the circles we move in include very traditional reformed Calvanist(ic) type churches, so that might explain some of it.  Another explanation could be that we live very near “Amish Country” which is what we call Lancaster Pennsylvania and areas surrounding it.  Did you know of the l…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yes, that makes sense. 🙂  Here’s a funny story with a similar sort of idea:

I have an unmarried friend who wears headcoverings constantly, not just in church.  We were talking about it one day, and how the Bible says a woman should wear a head covering to show that she is in submission to her husband, and we told her how we b…[Read more]

@seekjustice

I think a lot of Western culture has lost the original meanings of many parts of both the New and Old testaments just because we have such a limited understanding of Eastern culture.

I completely agree!!  Actually, we’ve had that problem a few times with some sermons where we just wanted to yell at the pastor, “we know you’re trying…[Read more]

@seekjustice

…so let’s see if I can do a really short post about the headcovering thing.

Quick (hopefully) answer is: We believe the headcovering referenced there is a literal headcovering, not the hair, and that the hair is used as a symbol, but an additional headcovering is what is expected by the chapter.  From the context, we think that…[Read more]

@seekjustice Oh, to clarify, in the last post I said I don’t think God’s commandments change depending on the culture you live in.  I do, however, know that they are often understood differently depending on the culture.  I also believe that, as it says in Romans 14, what is a sin for some may not be a sin for others since even with a literal i…[Read more]

@seekjustice Ooh, not afraid of controversial subjects, are we? 😛

So, I don’t believe commandments change with cultures.  I think you’re remembering that I said we understand some parts of the Bible in a different way because of the Middle Eastern background, but what I meant was that we understand some of the things in the Bible which are…[Read more]

@seekjustice Haha, so that’s why you listed him as a fantasy/allegory author.  I’ve read about ten or twelve of his romance novels. 😛

But anyway, my mom had read them as a teenager, so when I ran out of books in the library, and I was about fifteen or sixteen, she said I was old enough to read them.  There wasn’t much “mush” in them, as they w…[Read more]

@seekjustice Basically, I was going to ask, How much have you read of George MacDonald?  I know you’ve read The Princess and the Goblins. 😉

@seekjustice You’re probably not up anymore, but I just wanted to say… “Whoops!” 😛  Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply you’d said anything I disagreed with in your last post.  I’m pretty sure we agree on the topic.  (I said “inspired” by your post, not “incited” by the post! 😉 😛 )

Anyway, whenever you get this, I hope you’re reassured that th…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hello?  I just remembered that it’s Sunday for you, but I was thinking of talking about theology anyway, inspired by your latest blog post… 😉