Ever wonder what all the fuss is about? Well this article won’t completely satisfy your curiousity but it does feature yours truly. Joining Facebook and MySpace is a new social networking Web site that is beginning to make its presence known at Penn State — Twitter. “I’ve been using it […]
I began writing this as a reply to John’s comment on my introduction to Lamentations, but I think I would like to move the discussion up to the level of a post. In so doing I hope that some of you who have counseled those in grief or gone through […]
Our colleague Jeremy Schipper has sent along the attached pdf of the schedule for the Mid-Atlantic AAR/SBL. It looks like a good schedule. I am still not sure if I can make it, but I will try. 2009 MAR AAR-SBL Program Schedule. MID-ATLANTIC AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION and MID-ATLANTIC SOCIETY […]
One of my all time favorite web comics is Sheldon by Dave Kellett. He is always witty and very funny (see the series two weeks ago about make up for dudes, which does now exist in England! “Guyliner” and “manscara,” I kid you not. Chris Tilling must be behind it.) […]
It has not yet been put into final pdf format and when it does I will post a link, but I (finally) finished the Lamentations volume for the small pamphlets in the Bible Briefs series that Stephen Cook is editing! Since I think Lamentations is a rather good book for […]
And not just a week late, these are from 2006, our last Mardi Gras in NOLA. This was also the first Mardi Gras after Katrina, so if you head over the photo set you will see people dressed with blue tarps (the house covering of choice provided by FEMA) and […]
Paul Harvey (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009) that great radio broadcaster has died. It is amazing to realize just how long his radio career was and I feel that now we will no longer know the rest of the story. I vividly remember one spring day when my mother […]
Because the Episcopal church doesn’t have enough to contend with these days. These links are forwarded (with permission) from “StandFirm.” This is a conservative site, “Traditional Anglicanism in America,” so you already know their angle, but you have to admit…this seems more than a bit silly. Are their no Christian […]