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Posts under ‘SBL’

“God is not present in the classroom” – Testing podcast plugin part 2

I am still testing this plugin and I thought for this test I would put my SBL paper from 2006 where I discussed how I teach the Bible in a secular context.
For those interested, the plugin is now working (or tell me if you don’t see the podcast below!) and I am using PowerPress by [...]

SBL Paper: Recovery and Restoration Through Scripture (images)

This is the paper I presented to the Chronicle-Ezra-Nehemiah and Exile combined session. I was invited to speak about how the destruction and restoration of Jerusalem can be understood through the waters of Katrina. I have images that go with this (see a few images from Katrina at my flickr account) that I will post [...]

Bibliobloggers Dinner

Was excellent! Thanks to Jim West for organizing it. It is a shame, however, that he and Chris Tilling felt they had to succumb to the siren call of Bourbon Street.

The overwhelming SBL

I have actually been in NOLA since Thursday. I spent my first few days meeting with old friends at Tulane and in Covington (where we lived for 6 years). (I took a few pictures that you can see here.)
So yesterday SBL started in earnest. Several folks have blogged or twittered about how busy and overwhelming [...]

(re)Settled in NOLA (and pictures from Katrina)

If you follow my twitter feed (and no reason you should, do you really want to know what I ate last night?) you would know that after some flight delays I landed in NOLA yesterday afternoon. Depending upon how long you have read this blog you may not know that I spend my first 9 [...]