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Danielle “Dani” Ober lives an idyllic life in the Amish country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She has been fortunate to have a family of barred owls nesting in her backyard. The mated pair had one hatchling this year, who recently fledged. Dani got to watch the first tentative scoots from branch to branch as the baby owl began learning to fly. @staysanddos Nature is incredible. #barredowl #owlsoftiktok #birdtok #babyowl #717 #wildlifemoments #owlwatching #backyardwildlife #naturetok #owls #birdlovers #owlfamily #birdwatching #owl #learntofly #natureathome #lancasterpa @jotoole.golf ♬ suono originale – New60s70srevenge – New60s70srevenge Dani has nicknamed the fledgling “Dopey Baby Owl” and labeled her video. It’s easy to see where the nickname comes from. The video starts with Dopey flying from one branch to a lower branch and landing awkwardly. Dani introduces us to the entire family. Dopey flies down and lands on the ground. He is not graceful, but at least he isn’t crashing. Next, Dopey flies up the branch Papa Owl is on. As he starts walking up the branch to get near his dad, the male owl flies off. Dopey seems to mope for a few seconds, then gains his confidence and flies up to the branch his dad just left. Success! Although he still appears to be wobbly and lacks confidence, he is on his way to joining the realm of the night fliers. Image from TikTok. Dani is a 28-year-old teacher by trade, and a birdwatcher by proximity to nature. This fascinating process may be shown in a classroom in the future. Dani has plenty of time between chores to watch the baby owl learn to fly. Their property is on a river, so her entire backyard is like a National Geographic documentary chronicling Pennsylvania wildlife. Dani says they routinely see eagles, hawks, osprey, cranes, tons of songbirds, rabbits, deer, squirrels, groundhogs, and foxes. In one comment, she labels her yard as an “oasis.” Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “Watching The Baby Owl In Our Backyard Learn To Fly” appeared first on InspireMore.

One of my favorite seminary classes to teach is a survey of the four Gospels, where we work through Christ’s life from birth to resurrection. While students have several aha moments, none is bigger than when I broach the topic of the name Jesus. I explain to them that Jesus’s name is actually Joshua. The Hebrew name Joshua means “Yahweh is salvation.” Recall what the angel famously tells Joseph in Matthew 1:21: “[Mary] will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” The angel explains to Joseph that the name Jesus (or Joshua) functions as a summary statement for his whole ministry. While this is a complex issue and this topic deserves more analysis and reflection, the task before us in this article is to examine the name Jesus and explain why our English translations read “Jesus” and not the preferred “Joshua.” From Joshua to Jesus The English name Jesus is a transliteration from the Greek word Iēsous. Transliteration refers to converting a word from one alphabet to another. It’s the same word but in a different language or script. To use a biblical example, the Aramaic word ʾabbāʾ is transliterated into English as “Abba” (see Mark 14:36; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6). That word means “father” in Aramaic, and English translations could render it as “father,” but they choose to preserve the precise word. When it comes to the name Jesus, the New Testament authors substituted the Greek letters for the Hebrew letters for the name Jeshua, resulting in Iēsous. This process is different from translation, whereby the meaning of the source word is conveyed in the target language. Why did the New Testament writers spell Jeshua as Iēsous? The Greek translation of the Old Testament, a body of literature known as the Septuagint, appears to transliterate a contracted form of the Hebrew name Joshua as Iēsous or (“Jesus”). For example, if you look up the Greek translation of Joshua 1:1, you’ll read, “It came to pass, after the death of Moses, the Lord spoke to Iēsous [Jesus]” (my translation). This transliteration of Joshua into Iēsous first occurred around 200 years before the New Testament. King James Version’s Influence The New Testament was written in Greek and completed at the end of the first century. Around a hundred later, it was translated into Latin. These Latin manuscripts (and the later Vulgate) transliterate the Greek name Iēsous as Iesus. The first complete English translation of the Bible, Wycliffe’s Bible (1382), was a translation of the Vulgate and likewise transliterates the name as Ihesus. The Tyndale Bible (1534) and the Geneva Bible (1560), though, depend on the Greek New Testament and both read Iesus. Published less than a century later, the original 1611 King James Version (KJV) also employs the name Iesus. Stated simply, the English name Jesus is a transliteration of a transliteration. The English name Jesus is a transliteration of a transliteration. The Old Testament figure Joshua surfaces two times in the New Testament: Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8. The KJV also translates the Greek word Iēsous in both passages as Jesus. For example, Hebrews 4:8 reads, “For if Jesus [Iēsous] had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.” Clearly, this is a reference to the Old Testament figure Joshua (see Josh. 22:4). So why do our modern English translations refer to Jesus as Jesus and not as Joshua? This is odd because contemporary translations rightly translate Iēsous in Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8 as Joshua (e.g., NIV, CSB, ESV, RSV, NLT). The answer probably lies in the indelible mark that the KJV made on Western religion, culture, and theology. Because the KJV is, without a doubt, the most influential Bible translation in history, English translations dare not change the “Jesus.” Who would buy a Bible that substituted every occurrence of Jesus with Joshua? Imagine reading the famous words of Paul in Philippians 2:10–11: “At the name of Joshua every knee should bow . . . and every tongue confess that Joshua Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” It’s hard to even read! Other New Testament names, too, suffer the same fate. For example, James (Greek Iakōbos) should be rendered Jacob throughout the New Testament (e.g., Matt. 4:21; James 1:1; Jude 1). Better Joshua and Better Conquest Though I understand why modern translations preserve the name Jesus, I fear they’ve obscured an important dimension to Jesus’s identity. We noted above that Joshua means “the Lord saves,” and it appears to be the sixth most popular name in Palestine during the first century. This name is pregnant with meaning for at least two reasons. First, “the Lord saves” encapsulates the whole of Jesus’s ministry, because, as the angel proclaims, “he will save his people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). The apostles never lose sight of this meaning when they invoke the name Joshua/Jesus. When modern translations preserve the name Jesus, I fear they’ve obscured an important dimension to Jesus’s identity. Second, the name Joshua also evokes Moses’s successor, the one who led Israel into the promised land (Josh. 1:1–5:12). Joshua’s entrance into the land and his partial victory over the Canaanites prophetically foreshadow Jesus’s entrance into the new creational promised land and complete victory over the spiritual Canaanites. In bearing the name Jesus/Joshua, Jesus of Nazareth will exterminate Israel’s longtime foes—sin, death, and Satan—and bring about an unparalleled act of redemption: the salvation of individuals from sin’s bondage. At the end of the day, Christians should remain confident in their translations and be thankful for a plethora of resources that aid us in understanding difficult subjects like this one. Regardless of whether we translate the Greek name Iēsous as Jesus or Joshua, he remains the One who fulfilled the angel’s prediction by “saving us” from our sins.

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The whangdoodles are at it again — raging on X, posting grainy photos of World War II soldiers, and proclaiming, “Grandpa was Antifa!”Because, you see, Grandpa fought Hitler. Or Hirohito. Or Mussolini. They were fascists, Grandpa was anti-fascist, and since “anti-fascist” shortens to “Antifa,” presto — Grandpa was Antifa.What these self-styled internet historians are doing is a digital form of stolen valor. ... Grandpa would be appalled.Right.Before scourging the ignorant cockwombles pounding keyboards across the internet, let’s define what fascism actually meant.What fascism meantBeyond the obvious militarism of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hirohito’s Japan, the fascist regimes of the 20th century shared three defining traits. First, a top-down command economy controlled by a central planning body. Second, an integrated industrial and banking system. Third, a relatively homogeneous population under rigid state control.Now ask yourself: Does the United States fit that mold? No central economic planning agency, no state-directed industrial-banking complex (ask the Fed and the Securities and Exchange Commission), and certainly no single, homogeneous racial population.What we do have is an ever-multiplying swarm of willfully obtuse, historically illiterate useful idiots eager to join whatever digital mob happens to be trending this week.The kind who think “being a furry” is a lifestyle choice worth defending.You know — morons.Grandpa fought for the ConstitutionAmong them are the smug keyboard warriors who post their grandfather’s old war photo without knowing a thing about his unit, his history, or the weapon he lugged across Europe — a Thompson M1A1 submachine gun chambered in .45 ACP.These same people casually toss Grandpa’s honorable service into the same slime bucket as the modern-day anarcho-communists who call themselves “Antifa.” They hijack his image to dignify an extremist movement that despises everything he swore to defend.Grandpa honored and fought under the American flag. Antifa burns it. They literally call it a “fascist symbol.”Grandpa didn’t fight for a slogan. He fought for the Constitution. He raised his right hand and swore an oath — to protect and defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. If that meant bombing Tojo’s Japan, invading Hitler’s Germany, or crushing Mussolini’s Italy, so be it.RELATED: Antifa isn’t ‘anti-fascist’ — it’s anti-freedom and anti-God Definitely not Antifa.Bettmann/Getty ImagesGenerations after him have sworn the same oath. Those men fought communism in Korea and Vietnam, and later took the fight to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and, after 9/11, to al-Qaeda and ISIS across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.Stolen valor for the hashtag ageWhat these self-styled internet historians are doing is a digital form of stolen valor. They wrap themselves in the virtue of men who actually faced fire, men who earned their medals the hard way — not with a post and a hashtag.Grandpa would be appalled at his grandkids’ ignorance.But give it time. Some nimrod, eager for another viral hit, will post a photo of his dad in Afghanistan with the caption: “Dad was intersectional.”And the whangdoodles will cheer — none the wiser, and none the braver.