I updated the blog template because of an issue with “permissions” (I could not create new categories, for example). Apparently when I did so I lost the ability to have the sidebars are either…side. So I hope you don’t mind the new look. I am not a fan, but I […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
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According to Thorax of Brooke McEldowney’s 9 Chickweed Lane faith is “the unknowable promoted to the irrefutable” “doubt in exile” (my personal favorite) “the child’s comfort” “the fanatic’s trigger” Anyone recognize the piece being hummed/whistled by Thorax? (Is there a Google for musical notation?)
Reactions to the Fresh Air interview with Geneticist Francis Collins that I mentioned here. Genetics and Health » Geneticist Francis Collins on NPR Fresh Air Geneticist Francis Collins on NPR Fresh Air By Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD | Related entries in General Genetics and Health, Genetics Interviews Dr. Francis Collins, […]
Over at Novum Testamentum Blog Brandon has done an outstanding job collating the Biblioblogging world’s latest thoughts and comments. And he even likes the name “Targuman!” Thanks Brandon. Novum Testamentum Blog A Weblog Dedicated to the New Testament and Cognate Fields 04.01.07 Biblical Studies Carnival XVI Posted in weblogs at […]
I just received this email on the Targum-L. I hadn’t thought to worry about this! So i am glad Paul did. Dear everyone heading to Lubljana for the IOTS or the IOSOT this summer, I have talked to the Slovenian embassy in Washington, and they inform me that citizens of […]
I do not yet have time to blog in this with my own comments, but be sure to read RG’s post about this debate. Interesting and, as always, very humorous. Back after many morning meetings… Ruth Gledhill – Times Online – WBLG: ‘We’d be better off without religion’ March 28, […]
Heart of the City, by Mark Tatulli. A great a creative srip. Passages like Isa. 2 and the knowledge of humanity’s ability to hate itself make it clear to me that such prophetic utterances, in oder to be fulfilled, truly require the existence of a loving redeeming God.
Jim West has the best April 1st posting I have seen in the biblioblogosphere, but Frazz is quite good today. (If the image looks smooshed, it is because the WordPress template has constrained its width. Simply right-click and select “View Image,” or similar command, to view it more fully.)
I was flipping through the small concordance in the back of a TNIV Bible and found the slightly amusing header, due of course to the proximity of the words, but amusing nonetheless. Kinky.
Today Ed Cook of “Ralph” posted a poem he wrote in his college days. I thought that was a great idea and went to look for one that I had written when I was in college, I seem to recall putting it on the computer a few years ago, but […]