Starbucks Snowman Originally uploaded by Targuman. This little guy was sitting in the drive thru window at Starbucks.
Jim W takes great pains to regularly remind us of the total depravity of humanity (Jim, how about a bit more on repentance and forgiveness to balance things out?) but perhaps we need more practical solutions. Only God can forgive, but we still have some resources available to us.
No, that is not a reference to Tiger Woods. Jim West pointed out this story about a disruptive juror who happened to have had her name changed to “Jesus Christ.” Jim’s commentary is what we would expect. Seriously, Some People Shouldn’t Be Allowed In Public Like this nut job. Though, to […]
By jamelah on flickr used under Creative Commons license. From my “other” blog as Dean of the SHC. I share it here because I am not sure that everyone would agree with my definition of a scholar. (I should note that our students are “Schreyer Scholars” so there is a […]
Or split personality? Christopher Long, associate professor of Philosophy at PSU and soon to be associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, is wondering how to manage his online presence. Should he have one unified identity @cplong? Or two or more, such as I have (@targuman and @shcdean)? My […]
Is anyone else annoyed by the use of the phrase “date certain” with respect to troop withdrawals? Why not simply refer to it as a “certain date”?
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 […]
Just back from SBL and getting ready to be descended upon by 10 relatives, but I caught this in the Penn State Newswire. How would have thought that engaging in excessive use of alcohol could effect your grades? College students who engage in binge drinking tend to earn lower grades […]
This is the paper I presented to the Chronicle-Ezra-Nehemiah and Exile combined session. I was invited to speak about how the destruction and restoration of Jerusalem can be understood through the waters of Katrina. I have images that go with this (see a few images from Katrina at my flickr […]