In terms of promises to higher ed the Dems are already finding out how difficult it is to lead in politics. Apparently the pressure isn’t from the Republicans, but the industry. Democrats’ plan to slash the interest rate for student loans draws criticism from unlikely sources In the run-up to […]
I have to share one more from Dr. King, it is just too good, and is from the same sermon, “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life.” The last sentence is the gem. 🙂 And you know, there are two kinds of atheism. Atheism is the theory that there is […]
I am humbled to have been invited to speak at PSU’s MLK Day Peace Service. MLK’s motif of the Jericho Road had been brought to my attention by Bishop Charles Jenkins of EDOLA and I will speak from Luke 10 and MLK’s interpretation of that passage. In reading I came […]
As others have noted, Tyler Williams has done an excellent job with the latest BSC, Vol. 13. Biblical Studies Carnival XIII Biblical Studies Carnival XIII Welcome to the thirteenth Biblical Studies Carnival! This edition marks one full year of Biblical Studies Carnivals (BSC) since they were resurrected in February 2006. […]
Some regular readers may have noticed that my “Flickr badge” is no longer on the blog. The reason is that I have had to make all pictures of our children “private” (for friends and family only) on Flickr. Here is what happened…. The other day I noticed that “FenderMan” had […]
Thank you Tyler for bringing this to light! This is abfab! Fighting Shevas OK, this is too funny. This Chris fellow made an animation illustrating a sheva fight (In Biblical Hebrew, when two shevas are found at the beginning of a word, the first sheva becomes a hireq). I will […]
From Arutz Sheva – Israel National News The world’s largest electronic collection of Torah literature is now available online – in Hebrew. The Bar Ilan University Responsa Project, launched in 1991 in its CD format, was recently uploaded to the Internet on a platform provided by C.D.I. Systems. (See http://www.responsa.co.il) […]
And they just posted this one and I felt compelled to repost it here with Jim in mind. Free Beethoven and Mozart Recordings via Podcast Courtesy of Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcasting service, you can fill your iPod at no cost with some exceptional classical music. We’d particularly encourage […]
Open Culture is a great site for free and intellectually stimulating audio. Two posts on their blog illustrate this well. In the first they list resources for learning languages. But there are no Hebrew podcasts!? Anyone have a link for us to Hebrew podcasts? In the second they provide a […]