An Anglican cartoonist/blogger has these great links to pass along. Scarf, etc Talking of unrelated things, Advent seems to have become the season for bad religious memorabilia. Various websites have gone to the trouble of gathering it together: The young Anglicans in Canada have The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. Dean […]
Is anyone around here doing Pownce? I am now on and have some invites. WHAT IS IT? Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, […]
This fellow is in trouble with an entire country’s female population. But this is too amusing not to share. Oh please, you lard-butt British frumps have got off too lightly – Times Online It begins: His dig last week at the lack of grooming skills among women in Britain caused […]
I really like this photo. Last Saturday I was going to take all of us to see PSU play Seton Hall (thanks to Steve for the tix!) but Mack got sick, so Izzy and I went on our own. PSU won in overtime, great game! But I owed Mack a […]
The 2007 NCAA Volleyball Champions! (Beating Stanford, always a nice thing to do.) Way to go Lady Lions!
…well, not death, but it felt like it. The Little Man woke up in the middle of the night Saturday with a stomach bug and it has now worked its way through the fam, with Dad being the latest (and hopefully the last!). So, no posts from the sick bed […]
The British accent makes anything seem intelligent. A Tilling Wildlife Documentary on “The West” During our stay in San Diego for the SBL congress, I shared a room with one of nature’s rarest and most undomesticated creatures, The West. Of course, this was a chance to learn something about this […]
The Call for Papers is now open and updated for the Aramaic Studies section of the 2008 SBL conference. Aramaic Studies The Aramaic studies section is intended to provide a forum for scholars interested in various aspects of Aramaic language and its literature. Previous paper topics have included aspects of […]
Last night our new cat was attacking our tree. It made me think of the current plot in one of my favorite online comics, PvP. It begins here:
Yesterday was the Second Sunday of Advent and below is my homily. Second Sunday of Advent, Yr. A RCL Isaiah 11:1-10 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to […]