Author: Dr. Russ Bowers

  • The Back Page – Translating the King James

    “OK. I can buy the need to translate Wycliffe. But not the King James Bible.” Really? Let’s see. How easily does this read? Today’s fonts and spellings are so different […]

  • The Back Page – Translating Wycliffe

    “Translating Wycliffe? I thought he himself was a translator! Isn’t a mission agency that translates the Bible named after him?” True. Wycliffe would not need translation were we living in […]

  • The Back Page – I Can Plod

    An impoverished 18th-century English shoemaker with an illiterate wife. What could such a man do for world missions?Much, if the man is William Carey. It wasn’t easy; obstacles abounded. Many […]

  • The Back Page – It’s English to You

    A sleepy saying roused from dreamy slumber when people encounter an idea either arcane or abstruse is, “It’s all Greek to me!” Implication—Greek is foreign and incomprehensible. Perhaps that impression […]

  • The Back Page – We Shall See

    A Chinese story suggests the danger of assessing too quickly the nature of changes that intrude into our lives.An old farmer had a son and a horse. One day the […]

  • The Back Page – Hebrew Poetry

    For centuries, Western poetry focused on rhyme and meter: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Here, both lines end in long “e,” and […]

  • The Back Page – His Own Generation

    “David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep” (Acts 13:36).We are creatures of time. You and I inhabit a mere sliver of history […]

  • The Back Page – Truth

    There are two kinds of truth—objective and subjective.Objective truth is verifiable. Because there is a reality “out there” to which our statements about it should correspond, answers are (or should […]

  • The Back Page – But If Not

    The Back Page But If Not We all wish God would answer our prayers with a “Yes!” Whether for a job, relief from pain, recovery of health, or finances, when […]

  • The Back Page – Good Night, Good Bye

    The Back Page Good Night, Good Bye A father lying on his death bed asked to see his three adult sons one last time. After a few minutes of rehearsing […]