As is so often the case, my friend Rick is right. Presiding Bishop – Heal thyself! Turns out that five Anglican primates have announced their intention to boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference. (I wish they would not. Even if it turns out Lambeth 2008 is a waste of time and […]
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Today is the beginning of Lent, a time of repentance, discipline, and preparation for Good Friday and on through the Easter. Over the years that I have been in the Anglican tradition I have tried (and usually failed) to keep some measure of discipline at this time, either fasting in […]
Well it is February 1st and the end of the first International Biblical Studies Writing Month. I am ashamed to say that I have not finished my primary writing goal for IBSWM, but I am close. My project is to put in article form the paper I presented this past […]
I shall have to ask her, she is still alive after all. My post title refers to the post by Dr. Jim West in response to my plea to minimalists. I will get to Grandma in a moment, but first I want to set the record straight. My post was […]
I noticed a trackback from a blog I had not come across before, “Notes from Off-Center” by Andrew Tatusko. Not only is his article Racism, or Leveling the Merit Field? and excellent explanation of why such programs are not racism (saving me a LOT of work and showing much more […]
I recently listened again to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything and A Walk in the Woods and I am now listening to Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma. One thing I have intended to write about ages ago with regard to Bryson and now Pollan’s book brings it to […]
This one is for Mark Goodacre. I am slowly getting caught up on my Dr. Who and when the good doctor took his most recent form, while Rose (Billie Piper) as still his able-bodied assistant, he asked if he was ginger. “Ginger,” to my fellow Americans, is the Brit term […]
Kevin Wilson has kindly compiled a list of those attending, with links, so I will merely paste that in here: We had twenty-one people at the biblioblogger get together today. … I did, however, pass around a sheet of paper for everyone to sign. Here, then, is the canonical list […]
I am a day early, but I wanted to be the first. Happy Birthday to our own Biblioblogging Curmudgeon, Jim West!
I usually try not to simply forward things from other people’s posts, but this one is too good not to include. Thanks Jim! All The Harry Potter Movies in 5 Seconds That should save you some time. And it’s funny too!!! Thanks to Alastair for pointing this YouTube thing out […]