A 1926 deed, two editions of the Book of Discipline and a January 2023 email tell the Highland Park story better than the Horizon Texas Conference does.
Continue reading →Highland Park United Methodist Church voted 90% to leave the UMC, and its bishop says it cannot. The church takes in more than all the churches of some Conferences combined.
Continue reading →Version 3.0 of the Anselm iOS app opens on the Bible. You can scroll from Genesis to Revelation in English or the original, and open the other features from the verse you are reading.
Continue reading →The 2025 United Methodist statistics came out. In ten years the UMC lost 46% of its members and 62% of its attendance, and the losses have not slowed.
Continue reading →Any Anselm Project account can now make a preparation brief on a passage, and pastors can use the funeral and wedding tools. This post goes through what each one does.
Continue reading →The King James Version includes "the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one" at 1 John 5:7. No Greek manuscript from the first thousand years includes that sentence. How it reached the King James, and why the Anselm Project Bible prints verse 7 without the heavenly witnesses.
Continue reading →Acts 8:37 is missing from most Bibles because it is not in the earliest manuscripts of Acts. Where the eunuch's confession came from and why modern editions drop it.
Continue reading →A GPT model translated all 66 books of the Bible from Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, blind, with no other Bible in the pipeline. Why the earlier version had to be thrown out, how the new one was checked for borrowed wording, and which verses changed.
Continue reading →The Teaching and Scholarly reports are retired. Passage Study now comes in three editions, Minor, Major, and Summa, Devotional is 1 credit, and the APB 4.0 retranslation has started under GPT-6.1 Sol.
Continue reading →Occasional notes on biblical studies, translation, and what’s new in the Anselm Project.
