This blog is by a Fr. Wauck who is himslef of the Opus Dei Prelature. Get his take on the Da Vinci Code and Opus Dei. Hat tip to Jim Davila. I will try and compile various sites and blogs on the silly Da Vinci Code later today.
I still hate the name and I won’t be getting one any time soon for lots of reasons (2,499 of them, to be precise) but I am very glad to read that the MacBook Pro is a solid machine and working well. Pros: Classic design; runs Universal applications quickly; bright […]
Tonight we went to our first parade of the Mardi Gras season (they actually started last week). It was sparse on the North Shore but a lot of fun and Izzy came home with three bags of beads and stuffed animals. I caught one of this year’s primo throws:
For those students of mine who wonder what life was like back in the day, I present the blue couch. One of my old roommates posted this blog as an homage to the couch that my grandmother gave us for dorm room use. The last word I have is that […]
Today Brill sent me a copy of the first (and only, so far as I know) review of my book The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations by W. Th. Van Peursen. I believe this link is correct, but I do not have a subscription to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. It is […]
MacMinute News provides this somewhat dramatic title and the following quote: “It’s like consorting with the enemy. We’ve had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we’re better,” he says. “All of […]
From an exam, defining circumcision: The ritual cutting off of the foreskin of a male penis. Is there any other kind of penis?
This article details the struggles churches and synagogues are facing in the wake of Katrina. Fr. Kramer is a friend and I spent a year and a half teaching at Annunciation. They are doing outstanding work to bring relief and hope to a neighborhood that has been devestated and is […]
One of the best things about Mardi Gras! Hmmm. King Cake. (And it even has its origins in religious practice!)