This is an amazing story of devotion and committment. (With a few humorous observations along the way). BBC NEWS | Europe | Pole wakes up from 19-year coma A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
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As Larry the Cable Guy would say, “Lord, I apologize.” The New ‘Answers in Genesis’ New Testament– Children’s Edition Jesus rides into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on the foal of a raptor. People attempt to feed the raptor by laying palm branches on the road as he looks hungry. (Via […]
What should we call the Hebrew and Aramaic texts that make up the Jewish canon and a good portion of the Christian canons? That is the question being tossed around by several bibliobloggers. It started with Claude Mariottini writing in response to the Chicago Tribune, “In realm of language, change […]
Tomorrow is my bride’s 40th and this weekend we celebrated with her family. One of the “presents” was preparing a video of 40 years worth of pictures and, of course, music to go along with it. This led us into everything from James Taylor Something in the Way She Moves […]
I was going to write my own notice of this profile and summary, but Dr. West beat me to it. Instead, I quote him in full. A Profile of Jacob Neusner Time Magazine has an engaging portrait of Jacob Neusner on its website which folk here will find interesting, to […]
We had a great all-day meeting with our colleagues from the CIC. Many are doing very exciting things and we picked up a lot of great ideas. Each program is actually quite different, but we all face similar issues and have similar concerns and I learned much yesterday. It was […]
I am starting a new category today, “ethics.” At the SHC we are focusing more on developing leaders who will be ethical in their outlook. One of the challenges is how to define “ethics” (and is it any different than “morals”?) and how to integrate that into the curriculum and […]
As I mentioned, I am in Chi-town on business. I left State College yesterday evening after a full day of meeting, greeting, and registering next year’s freshmen. (PSU has a great spring/summer on campus registration program so we have already met our new students!) I arrived in Cinci safe and […]
Today I am in Chicago meeting Honors Deans and Dirctors from the other CIC schools. What is CIC? Good question. It is the Big 10 + University of ILL Chicago. So, 12 schools in total because of course “the Big 10” is really 11 schools. CIC: Committee on Institutional Cooperation […]