From Moab to Bethlehem, Wilcannia to Eastwood, this is a Christmas 2020 episode with an Australian flavour. Richard returns to JI Packer's work on the ESV Bible and begins with a discussion of the ESV 'word-for-word' approach in its translation and illustrates this by looking at Ruth 1:6 (return to Bethlehem). After this, the move is to the poet-preacher Wilfred Mailler who served as an Anglican minister in Wilcannia in the early 1900s and who also turned to Bethlehem when he wrote a poem entitled Christmas Eve. Mailler's mother was the first cousin of The Australian poet, Henry Kendall. The episode closes with a classic Australian story about the origins of the Granny Smith apple in Eastwood, as well as returning to the manger, to Moab and Balaam's Ass.
From Moab to Bethlehem, Wilcannia to Eastwood, this is a Christmas 2020 episode with an Australian flavour. Richard returns to JI Packer's work on the ESV Bible and begins with a discussion of the ESV 'word-for-word' approach in its translation and illustrates this by looking at Ruth 1:6 (return to Bethlehem). After this, the move is to the poet-preacher Wilfred Mailler who served as an Anglican minister in Wilcannia in the early 1900s and who also turned to Bethlehem when he wrote a poem entitled Christmas Eve. Mailler's mother was the first cousin of The Australian poet, Henry Kendall. The episode closes with a classic Australian story about the origins of the Granny Smith apple in Eastwood, as well as returning to the manger, to Moab and Balaam's Ass.