The example in your most recent comment doesn't advance your case, unfortunately. I serve in the denomination where Darrell Johnson is the senior pastor of the flagship church. I would characterize this denomination as mainline with Evangelical pockets. In my seminary preaching class this past semester, at the denominational theology school we used Craddock and Buttrick as course texts. Not Johnson nor MacArthur nor Robinson!

Moreover, Darrell Johnson joined Regent College after serving 30 years in the PCUSA, and took his MDiv at Fuller - hardly a bastion of conservatism.

Finally, have you read The Glory of Preaching? I have, and see nothing in it particular to conservative Christianity. 

Regards,

Mark@DR

While I can't speak about the specific resources you mention, I can vouch that we are pursuing licenses that reflect the breadth of diversity in our user base.

In regards to the blog where I mentioned NICOT/NICNT as my favorite commentary, I was speaking from a first person perspective, which I typically do in blog posts. Others on our staff might claim a more critical commentary as their go-to resource, so I certainly didn't mean to speak for the entire Accordance team, and I apologize if it came off as such. I'm actually a bit of a commentary junkie, so in addition to the NICOT/NICNT, I typically check Word Biblical Commentary, Hermeneia, and The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture if I'm feeling especially adventurous :)

I appreciate your willingness, and the willingness of everyone at Accordance – including the users – to be sensitive to "Jewish users and Christian users of every theological stripe." I apologize for voicing my frustration in a way that wasn't helpful.

For what it's worth, I wasn't referring to this blog post in particular, but to other things I've noticed. (I didn't make that clear in my original comment.)

For example, in your blog post "What is the Glory of Preaching?" you note that you "e-mailed [the] VP of Licensing and asked him to license [The Glory of Preaching] for Accordance." Any chance you'll do the same for Willimon's The Witness of Preaching or Craddock's Preaching?

Likewise, Darin wrote earlier this month about how NICOT/NICNT is his favorite commentary series without any comment at all about the fact that it is a fairly conservative series overall and that other, more progressive, series written in a similar vein (e.g., The Old Testament Library/The New Testament Library) aren't available in Accordance.

Thus, while folks from "every theological stripe" might be using Accordance, I haven't seen content from them here on the blog in quite some time, if ever. Just an observation of at least the recent content posted here, that's all.

With respect to this blog post, I asked for readers to share their own experiences and I did not limit the invitation to conservative evangelicals, so all "progressive/liberal Christian and Jewish users of Accordance" needed to do in order to have their voices "featured" was to post a comment. You did that, but instead of gently offering another perspective, you chose to voice your annoyance with the perspectives of others. As you yourself wrote in a recent blog post, you need to view these people not as "enemies" but as "conversation partners."

Yes, if all the assumptions you're making - that the author of Matthew wasn't being ironic, that Jesus actually said those words, and that the only meaning the scriptures can hold is contained by exegeting Greek words in a modernistic fashion - are correct, then, yes, I guess you're right.

However, Jürgen Moltmann and many, many others have interpreted that passage in the same way your pastor did. But, clearly, since you have some Greek tools in Accordance, you've got it right, and all those other scholars and theologians must be wrong.

Thank God the Pharisees didn't have iPhones. They probably would have picked apart Jesus every time he "misquoted" the scriptures to them, too.

I use Accordance every day, and I've mostly enjoyed perusing the forums and reading the blog, but the conservative (and Christian) bias is really, really annoying. There are progressive/liberal Christian and Jewish users of Accordance, too. How about featuring their voices, at least on occasion?

Therefore, Israel, love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and all your soul and all of your very self. For the fear of YHWH is the beginning of wisdom, and for man to keep his commandments is everything. Let all who love the Elohim of Israel search for him with all their heart, for they shall seek and find him.

Fortunately, I have a good relationship with the writer, and he's always very open to correction.

I had a strong hunch that this interpretation was incorrect. When the meeting was adjourned, I grabbed my MacBook and opened Accordance. I quickly determined that the word he thought was aion (a noun) was actually the adjective, aionios. At the same time, I also discovered that the word he thought was a verb, kolazo, was actually the noun, kolasis. In a matter of minutes, with the power Accordance software and fabulous Greek texts (GNT-T) and tools (NIDNTT, L&N, BDAG, etc.), I was able to show that kolasis didn't come from horticulture but was common in "sacral jurisprudence" (NIDNTT) and that aionios describes something without beginning, without ending, or neither. In other words, eis kolasin aionion (and not "an aion of kolazo") truly means "eternal punishment." Though these were pointed out, the preacher, undeterred, included his interpretation unamended and unedited in his latest published book. 

And that is no longer my church. :)