You may have noticed new, red, and dashed links on the blog. If you hover over them you will see Amazon ads. I am trying out their Contextual Links ads. I don’t think they will be too intrusive, but by all means give me your feedback. Unless you have customized […]
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The Expanded Epilogue from Rowling herself is available here. Spoiler alert! Don’t read it if you have not finished the book. If you found the epilogue of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” rather vague, then J.K. Rowling achieved her goal. The author was shooting for “nebulous,” something “poetic.” She […]
…especially if you have 9 hours in a plane. So yesterday morning I set out from my hotel in Slovenia at 5:30 (yup, AM) for a 7:45 flight to Zürich from whence I would go to Philly and then on to State College. But shortly after checking in I was […]
Christopher Heard at Higgaion has written about trying out the new Nisus Writer Pro. For those who are unfamiliar with NW, it was an amazing and powerful word processor in the 90’s for the MacOS (I cannot remember how early, but through OS 9). One of the things that made […]
From our Schreyer Honors College Blog: Announcing the 2007 Summer Reading List The following are book descriptions from the 2007 Schreyer Honors College Summer Reading List. The group discussions will be held with first-year Scholars during Orientation on Thursday, August 23 and Friday, August 24. All first-year Scholars will be […]
What follows is a subsequent chapter of the work-in-progress I shared last week, Characters of God. (You can read the premise of the work and the first chapter here.) These chapters originated as meditations for a men’s and later a women’s silent retreat. The meditations originally focused upon male or […]
The trip back this morning was uneventful until we got to the driveway. State College had about a foot of snow and of course our driveway wasn’t cleared. Driving in and into the garage wasn’t the problem. Getting out of the garage turned out to be the problem. A big […]
The SBL Book Review email arrived and I was pleasantly surprised to see a review of my book, The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations, by my friend Jan-Wim Wesselius. The review can be found here. It is a very positive and friendly review. I just want to make a couple of […]
Lewis Mystery Solved Did Lewis write “The Dark Tower”? Seems plausible to me (although I have not given it much thought.) According to the CT Article this C.S. Lewis mystery is solved. Heads RalphEd! (Via Christianity Today Magazine.)