Newsletter Highlights - December 2025

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is time again to take a break and give you an update about some of the things going on at the Center for New Testament Restoration (CNTR):

  • Most of the work I have been doing the past few months involved revising and documenting the code base and the database, and bringing them up to modern standards. This will eventually lead to a revision of the Technical Reference document, which has long been out of date. This is all in preparation for handing the project off to the next generation. Along those lines, I have had several talks with Asbury Theological Seminary about housing the infrastructure of the project in the future.
  • The project has also been moved from Windows to Linux which did take some time, but went flawlessly. Developers can work in either environment, since the main components such as the Node.js and MySQL did not change, but some of the supporting scripts had to be modified. This conversion had been planned for several years, but the deprecation of Windows 10 provided the driving impetus. I have now converted all of my computers to Linux, and there was not one issue with hardware or drivers. I am so much happier now to have computers that are orders of magnitude faster, more secure, simpler to use, don’t have annoying ads, and don’t spy on me.
  • In November, I gave two seminar presentations at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN. The faculty there were top-notch and the presentations were well received.
  • Also in November, I spoke at the Evangelical Theological Society in Boston on the topic of “Advantages of Scientific Textual Criticism”. It was my first time speaking at this particular  conference, but I doubt I will do so again because they require those who use overhead projectors to bring their own (which I had to borrow).
  • Volunteers continue to do excellent work behind the scenes, but more volunteers are always welcome. Among other things, volunteers have been helping out on the lexicon project and working towards adding foreign versions and church father quotations to the project. If you know of others who might be interested in participating please let me know. The CNTR project continues to rely more and more on work from volunteers which is part of the plan to keep the project going for future generations long after I am gone.

Well, that is some of the news from the CNTR. As always, all praise and glory are given to the Lord Jesus Christ for all that has been accomplished!  

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