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From The Chronicle: Daily news: 04/12/2006 — 03 Whether they identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, college students agree on the importance of religion and share a concern for the country’s moral direction. But their views on the role religion should play in politics break down along party lines, according […]

I disagree thoroughly with Andrew Sullivan’s creation and use of the term “Christianist” but I agree almost in toto with this post. The “money quote,” as he would say, The principle matters. Not the party.

File under “more puerile humor from Brady” but this is too funny. There are more where this came from Ship of Fools: Signs & Blunders. Their description: Yes, it’s that authentic “rabbit caught in the headlights” look. An expression of total disbelief and sheer terror recently crossed the face of […]

These guys are a class act. I have had the privilege of exchanging many emails with many of them and they are a great group of lads and lasses (even when some have moved over to work on Windows projects.

This morning I manually typed in the URL of my blog and this site came up: Mega site of Bible studies and information. At first I thought someone had taken my URL then I realized that I had misspelled “blogPsot.” So, if you get to this site, it is not […]

Ed has a great little post summing up the popular impact of the release of Judas. I couldn’t have said it better so I shan’t. Ending bit: I suppose it bears repeating: (1) none of the Gnostic gospels, which date from at least a century after the time of Christ, […]

Others have posted about their papers having been accepted at SBL (e.g., here and here and here for links to others as well), so I thought I should post about my future SBL doings. I am Chair of the Aramaic Studies Unit, but I also submitted a paper to a […]

This is some of the best parady I have read in a LONG time. It is from the April Fool’s edition. I may not agree with all the sentiments, but the anonymous student captured Tony and Mike to a “T.” Pardon the Interruption Green Wave Edition March 31, 2006 Tony […]

My daughter and I like Plumb very much and Blush (Only You) is the free iTunes single of the week. (Be sure to listen to candycoatedwaterdrops.) I thought Plumb was a group, but the iTunes refers to “Plumb” in the third person feminine singular. Perhaps there has been some change […]

I think I would still prefer VPC which allows me to run Windows while running MacOS. More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and […]