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God Didn’t Say That (@GodDidntSayThat) is an online forum for discussing the Bible and its translations, mistranslations, interpretations, and misinterpretations.
Dr. Joel M. Hoffman is the chief translator for the ten-volume series My People’s Prayer Book, author of And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning, and editor of The Unabridged Bible. Writing under “J.M. Hoffman,” he is author of the thriller series The Warwick Files. He holds a PhD in theoretical linguistics and has taught at Brandeis University and HUC-JIR in New York City. He presents widely to churches, synagogues, and other groups. more…
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My thriller series: The Warwick Files.
"A police chief with a secretive past. A quiet New York City suburb. And, officially, no spies."Watch the trailer: 
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I am a blog minimalist myself, but the site navigates well. Of course, the most important aspect of a blog is its content. Thank you for your unique contribution to the biblioblogosphere.
Thank you for your kind words.
I like it – not so much the title colors. Too much, but the nice fades had a great touch
Okay. We’ll see if I keep the color burst. I’d like to have something colorful somewhere on the page.
Yeah, Joel, think about the title color burst. I would prefer a little more business-like appearance if it were my blog. I think it looks too much like candy, or a little kid’s blog. You might want to use a single color there, maybe that nice blue you have in the horizontal dividing lines. I do like the colorful box the post is in. Maybe that’s enough color.
Other than the title color burst, I think the new appearance is great!
Did you change it a bit while I was posting my comment? It looks a little more muted now. (Of course, at my age I could be imagining it!) Just keep playing with it until it pleases you eyes, Joel.
Nope. I haven’t changed it in the past 12 hours.
And I’m a demanding customer — it will never fully please me….
Verdana ain’t my favorite font; too Microsoft-centric — I’m a Mac and Linux user. Gill Sans is nicer to read. The colors play havoc with my Mears-Irlen Syndrome; color sensistive dyslexia. The tags at the right are too intrusice and in many cases truncated. I think my AdBlockPlus, GreaseMonkey and Stylish add-ons to Firefox will be called into play to make the content readable for me.