You will all be familiar with the reports that major Iraqi sites had been destroyed by looters and US troops (see the U Chicago OI’s “Lost Treasures from Iraq” site). Well, apparently that may not be quite true. Melik Kaylan reports for the Wall Street Journal: A recent mission to […]
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You may have already seen this video, but I just saw it today. Matt Harding has now danced around the world (with the help of a sponsor who doesn’t need my help by linking). Be sure to watch the outtakes with comments. Very funny! (Don’t try dancing at the Parthenon. […]
Drew Tatusko has a very good post , linking to a university altercation that had escaped my notice, addressing whether or not atheists should respect religion.I have come across this quite often, particularly in a debate with Jonathan Culler at Cornell (I will post about that some day, it happened […]
I am trying to finally knock out this article and as is often the case the introduction is proving the greatest challenge. In particularly I am trying to set up an argument (albeit briefly, it is not the main purpose of this article) for considering the Targumim of the Megillot […]
Dr. Claude Mariottini has a very good post analyzing the recent Pew survey on religion in the US with respect to Evangelicals. You can read it all here.There are some very interesting results and as Claude points out, they make one wonder about how the questions were phrased. Still, they […]
I just realized yesterday afternoon that Kevin Wilson had continued our discussion begun in comments on my blog post regarding GAFCON and possible responses at Lambeth. Kevin offered some great comments to that post and I wanted to respond to one or two points he made in his full post. […]
Episcopal Cafe has provided a mashup of blogs of bishops attending Lambeth. So if you want to keep up with the view from the inside follow the blogs here .
My colleague, parishioner, and prolific author Philip Jenkins has a new book out that has just been given a brief review by Publishers Weekly. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Philip Jenkins. HarperOne, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-147280-0 […]