Kathy Brasby Blog
The Bible: planning the meaning
The book of Jonah contains some amazing structure, showing the author did more than just write down what happened. He structured a story that carried an unexpected meaning. Let me explain something of the structure. The book has four chapters. Chapters 1 and 3...
Online translators: “what?”
Today you can copy text, plug into an online translator, and have yourself a nifty set of words that might or might not make the slightest sense. For example, I heard one of a translation of the common idiom: “Out of sight, out of mind” translated to : “Invisible,...
The funny thing about cars
I’m not a big fan of car commercials because I really don’t think the right car will give me peace, bring my family closer together, or define my sophistication index. But I do like to tell car stories. Like this one. We were filling our car at a little gas station in...
The Bible: how context is vital
Last week we looked at recurring imagery in the Parable of the Wicked Tenant. Today we’re revisiting the same parable. We’ll look at how context is important and how the author developed his ideas using the parable as part of a panorama of meaning. The parable appears...
My video spinner
My teenage son wants to be a multimedia expert, which has thrown his mother into a bit of a spin. Can one pay the rent while making YouTube videos and designing websites? He’s 17 so of course one can. I suggested to him today that maybe he should have a backup plan....
No words for that
Words are my thing but sometimes they just escape me. Like the guillotine story. Our older son was 11 at the time. He and his younger sister, who was 6 at the time, were cooking up adventures all afternoon. At that time, our family had 40 acres of grassland accented...
The Bible: repeated images
Vineyards appear throughout the Bible as vivid images. Many references to them appear in the Old Testament and then Jesus used the imagery numerous times in his teachings as recorded in the New Testament. We read about the Exodus of Israel described in the language of...
Google Plus not dead yet
Google Plus is not dead, although I thought so for months. Maybe you gave up on Google Plus as well. Then I read an article by Dave Llorens about the future of Google Plus and decided to stir the waters of my account again. I know, one more social connection to try to...
Is that cat dead or alive?
When our hobby farm was at full capacity, we milked several Nubian goats every day. One morning, when I started chores in our milking room, my 4-year-old daughter climbed onto a large feed box at the back of the room and peered over the back side. "Mom, there's a cat...