I'm too busy today to blog anything myself, but two posts have caught my eye and I'll pass them on to you.

First, over at the Better Bibles Blog, Peter Kirk has accused the TNIV translators of having a complementarian agenda. Yes, you heard that right--a complementarian agenda. Usually, the TNIV translators are accused of having an egalitarian agenda, so Peter's post is highly ironic. I personally don't think it has either agenda, although complementarians and egalitarians are both represented on the thoroughly evangelical translation committee.

Second, my old friend (and church planter) Bill Craig has written a very moving blog entry entitled "Monster House." Here he describes the living conditions and encounters with neighbors that he and his wife Jill experienced during their first church plant out of seminary. Here's an excerpt, but be sure to read the whole entry:

The upstairs shower was about to drop through the ceiling any minute. You could see the center part of the ceiling dropping with the outline of the shower in the upstairs bathroom. My biggest nightmare was that a large, naked, angry, tattooed, drinking and swearing mother would drop through while I was eating my breakfast and doing my devotionals and I’d lose my appetite for the rest of my life. But maybe it was a selfish hope, because maybe then we could have the little children and show them the love of Christ they didn’t know.