That is the title of this Inside Higher Ed article about Christianity Today’s Books & Culture rejected an article questioning the past and future direction of Wheaton College. As someone with an MA from Wheaton I thought I might make various trenchant comments, but I will not. Just a couple of notes about the IHE [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Academics’
Updates: BS Carnival & Top 50
Being the end of the month (or now the beginning of the new month) we have our monthly Biblical Studies Carnival and Top 50 blogs listing. Doug Chaplin aka clayboy did an excellent job with this month’s Carnival. This month I moved back into the Top 50 biblioblogs after a brief hiatus (not posting is [...]
New book on Targum Jonathan
I received a note from friend and colleague Dineke Houtman about the publication of a new projection on the origin and history of Targum Jonathan. This book was a collaborative project with Harry Sysling and is being published by Brill. Volume 9 in the Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scriptureseries, Alternative Targum Traditions The Use of Variant [...]
Conference: Stewardship or Sacrifice? Religion & the Ethics of Climate Change
Things are coming together for our conference at PSU regarding religious and ethical dimensions of climate change. I will be a panelist and I am looking forward to it! From the conference website:
Conference: October 7–8, 2009
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
The Pennsylvania State University
All events are free and open to the public.
Held at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, [...]
FERPA for Fun! (Note for those teaching in US higher ed)
For those teaching in the US what can and cannot be released to people other than students (e.g., parents!) is detailed in a guideline referred to as “FERPA,” The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The short is, you can’t tell anyone but the student anything. As a dean I can tell you that parents [...]
