Religion
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From the NYTimes, this video-thing (“Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute and Ross Douthat of The Atlantic debate whether a functioning society requires religious faith”) begins with an incredibly flawed questio: Does increased secularization mean a less moral society? There are so many issues with the question (how one […]
Is it my imagination or is Saving Private Ryan now shown every Holy Week? It seems to me that this movie (are there others? I am sure there must be) are SHOtime/TBS/HBO/Cinemax response ot the Discovery Channel’s annual search for Jesus. Once it comes out in 2045 I am sure […]
This is not news in fact, it is from 2005, but I noticed @Ihnatko tweet about it and so I headed over to NPR to give it a listen and read the text. I am not sure what he would do with several hundred pages, but in 500 words (or […]
I am very pleased to announce that we are going to have an interesting, exciting, and timely conference at Penn State this fall. I will be on one of the panels and we will have a number of other scholars participating. If you are in Pennsylvania and interested in participating […]
Jim West has brought to our attention both the reassignment of Gerd Lüdemann and a petition to protest the fact that the German Supreme Court upheld that decision. According to the petition: Gerd Lüdemann, Professor of the History and Literature of Early Christianity in the University of Göttingen, has received […]
My brother has posted an interesting item over at The Professor’s Notes, “A Cultural or Observant Mac?.” The first thing you should know is that back in the 80’s he went with the Commodore 64 [correction: Amiga, see his comment below] and, by 1987, I went with the Mac (he […]
This comic reminded me of one of our essay questions for this year’s SHC application. Our application requires three essays and one that we have chosen for this year that I particularly like is this: You are given the power, for one day, to be an invisible observer at an […]
We are almost done with inauguration week. Almost. The National Prayer Service, a tradition which dates back to 1789, is happening today, but many prayers have been publicly offered this week and a few have generated great discussion even before they were offered. First it was announced that Rick Warren […]