UPDATE: See Kevin’s comment below. Kevin texted me yesterday to say that his blog and entire site have been hacked and are down. If you go to it now a text file downloads automatically. I did the foolish thing of opening (just for you gentle readers) and it seems to […]
As both an academic and an administrator (and someone brought in with tenure) this is disconcerting. President Loses Tenure at Delaware State U. – Chronicle.com Delaware State University’s president, Allen L. Sessoms, and five other university administrators have been stripped of tenure as part of a settlement with the university’s faculty […]
Its not what you do, it is how you do it. Given my post yesterday regarding Ps. 51 and the necessity (or not) of sacrifices, this post from Middlebrow regarding fasting is apropos. Biblical Fasting | The Scriptorium Daily: Middlebrow As a result, what we have in fasting is a […]
HT to Nick for this story. Now this is a Bible I have to have « Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth A samurai Jesus? Ha! Take that pacifists! The story begins: Ajinbayo Akinsiku wants the world to know Jesus Christ, just not the gentle, blue-eyed Christ of old Hollywood […]
15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased. 17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O […]
Watching Bobby Jindal commenting on primary in LA. I only wish I could have voted for him (we moved 1.5 years ago) # I must be getting old. I like the "adult alternative" music channel on Comcast. # Off to see Lady Lions on Think Pink Day! # Powered by […]
It was several years after I began observing Lent that I was notified that Sundays don’t count. That is, they are a feast day so if you have given up something like chocolate (or more extremely, but remember Paul’s words! 1 Cor. 7:5) you may enjoy that on the Sundays […]
Watching Rio Bravo with John Wayne and …Dean Martin! Imagine the amount of alcohol needed to complete that film. # Rio Bravo – Martin’s plays an alcoholic quite well. The recovering bit must have been a stretch though. # Apparently Rio Bravo is a reply to High Noon which in […]
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a […]