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ATTENTION READERS: What Is “That”?
Dr. Buttersworth Investigates One of Rock & Roll’s Most Unnecessary Mysteries Greetings, readers. Dr. Buttersworth here. From time to time, your good doctor is called upon to investigate mysteries extending beyond the usual boundaries of biblical conjunction scholarship. I do not seek these assignments. They find me. Today we turn our attention to one of… Continue reading
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Attention Historians: The Doctor Has Discovered a Rather Important But
Moving from Memorial to Devotion Having last week off gave the doctor time to rummage through history again. This is generally discouraged. Nevertheless, I found myself reading one of the most famous speeches in American history and discovered—quite unexpectedly, although I should have suspected it—that Abraham Lincoln understood the strategic importance of a well-placed but. Twice,… Continue reading
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Attention Students: Christian Orthodoxy Has Buts
Christian Orthodoxy: Brought to You in Part by the Word BUT Students, I have made a discovery. An important discovery. Potentially the sort of discovery upon which distinguished academic careers are built, reputations established, endowed chairs offered and small bronze plaques eventually affixed to library walls. For some time, your good doctor has attempted to… Continue reading
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Dr. Buttersworth Goes to Conjunction Junction
There was a time when your good doctor knew Greek. Not “I recognize a few Greek letters from fraternity houses” Greek. Actual Greek. Koine Greek. New Testament Greek. There was a time, many years and several million dead brain cells ago, when I could open a Greek New Testament and read the thing with reasonable fluency. There… Continue reading
