The official word is out that Apple will reveal to us their “latest creation” on January 27th. All the world is atwitter with rumors and the latest has the ring of truth. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the rumor is fact, Apple will release a 10″ tablet device […]
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 […]
I was watching the Discovery Channel’s “Wild Pacific” tonight with my son and they featured “the world’s heaviest parrot” (this is the parrot whose amorous adventures were noted here before). The narrator is Mike Rowe, but I am sure he did not write the script. At one point we were […]
I was invited to offer the invocation for Penn State’s 35th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Banquet. I thought I would share my prayer with you here. Lord and Father of all, We come together tonight to commemorate and celebrate the life of your servant Dr. Martin Luther King, […]
This past Sunday was the first Sunday after Epiphany and the celebration of the baptism of Jesus. Unless I misheard (which is possible) I believe I heard our priest assert on Sunday that Jesus’ baptism was private. I know that there are some apparent inconsistencies between the Gospel accounts and […]
I think so, but Alanis Morissette always makes me question my use of the term. Google’s Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China By ANDREW JACOBS, MIGUEL HELFT and JOHN MARKOFF3 minutes ago BEIJING — China heavily censored the news that Google would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting […]
What do you think they are discussing? UPDATE: I am leaning towards James’. Any votes? I have to say that in the case the original caption was quite good: Love the work you’ve been doing with the church recently.
I am on the road so this will be brief, but I encourage everyone to take a look at this article in the Chronicle (it appears to be freely available and not behind a pay wall) by Michael Roth, “Beyond Critical Thinking.” He points out that while developing in ourselves […]
You all know I am an Apple fan and have been watching the news about a (rumored) announcement about a (rumored) Apple tablet device. Well, you don’t need to know more about that, but I did need to share with you this great image from MacDailyNews. 😉 (Oh, and the […]