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What if the president of the United States decided he did not like the most recent, most read (by those who could read) Holy Bible and legally (lawfully) commissioned a group of learned men to make a new translation. What if he assigned his top aide to find the best minds in the country Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, Catholic, Episcopal and other faiths to make a new, better readable translation of the Scriptures? What if? Think about it. And what if those who accepted the challenge would be high ranking including some who had bribed or otherwise schemed for the position in their workplace and of varied countenances? One might despise another. One might be of a genial nature, another a “sourpuss.” One might be haughty, another deeply studious. Most of these men might also be ambitious for power, and some were “back-biters.” They might be not totally honest men in their everyday dealings. ....
AS someone who was born in Scotland but not of Scottish heritage, the continual knocking of the Scots language that crops up with remarkable regularity, genuinely floors me every time. Here is a language that is at least 900 years old, was spoken by kings and ordinary people, used to write official records, was the language of most of the work of arguably one of the world’s most famous poets, Rabbie Burns, is part and parcel of a nation’s identity and, at the last census, was spoken, read or understood by 1.5 million people. A language so different from English that in 1604, Englishman and scholar Henry Saville described the English and Scots tongues as being different as Spanish and Portuguese. But yet, when a lassie on Twitter delivers her Scots word of the day, she is abused and trolled like some sort of modern day witch. ....
Church of Ireland The Bishop of Derry & Raphoe, the Rt Revd Andrew Forster, seconds the motion to receive the Representative Church Body report The Bishop of Derry & Raphoe, the Rt Revd Andrew Forster, seconds the motion to receive the Representative Church Body report THE money paid out of long-term investments to the Church of Ireland to fund its operations may have to be further reduced, despite the recovery of the markets from the coronavirus crisis, the General Synod has been warned. Henry Saville, who chairs the executive committee of the Church’s Representative Body (RB), said during an online meeting of the Synod that the current annual withdrawal rate of 3.5 per cent might not be sustainable over the long term. ....