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 […]
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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 […]
Somehow I missed the fact that my good friend Dr. Richard Wright (Jim W. you need to get to know this fellow Baptist!) has started a very thoughtful blog. I should note that I have known Richard since we were at Cornell together and he taught me biblical Hebrew. (He […]