The SBL Call for Papers deadline is still March 1 (midnight tonight!), and I encourage all Aramaists out there to propose a paper for our session! But AAR has extended their deadline to March 7th. Call for Papers Deadline Extended to March 7! The 2007 AAR Call for Papers deadline […]
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I have been following this story, but I have not been blogging since I do not yet have anything to say. Jim has a number of good links below and like him I will wait until I can review all the evidence before commenting in any detail. The Talpiot Tomb […]
Not posted yet, but The Daily Show had a special session on “Fashion Week in God” with Samatha Bee. Look for it here. God was a special guest and described Rt. Rev. Katherine Jefferts Shori’s investiture vestments as looking “like Grimace.” UPDATE: Here is is:
Oh my. This can’t be good. (Although Roseanne Barr would have been worse.) I wonder if she will be an Episcopalian priest, you know, to keep that whole Anglican thing going. I am sure that Kirstie Alley is a nice person and all that, but I just can’t see it…. […]
Read, enjoy, follow the links, read, enjoy, rinse, repeat. How to survive while listening to a sermon I found this cartoon of mine on the following rather splendid page: How to survive while listening to a sermon These notes are set down in sympathetic recognition of the fact that most […]
The following is from the very interesting and engaging blog Middlebrow. The entry is specifically from Dr. Fred Sanders, professor of theology and “is widely recognized as the world’s greatest systematic theologian cartoonist.” MBD is an outstanding album from a great songwriter and band. I have reviewed it somewhere on […]
HT to Ben Witherington: Alistair McGrath’s Critique of Dawkins “The God Delusion” Alistair McGrath is a remarkable person. He has PhDs in Theology and also in Molecular Bio-Physics. He is currently a Professor of public science at Oxford. In this lecture he is critiquing his fellow Oxfordian Richard Dawkins Here […]
I loved Bridge to Terabithia when I read it in elementary school, but I never want to read it again. If you don’t know the ending, I won’t spoil it for you, but I cried, oh man did I cry. That isn’t exactly going to endear a boy to other […]
UPDATE: Ben Witherington has a review on his blog. He loved it! So I am looking forward to seeing it when it comes out. (And wondering how BW gets to see these earlier than the rest of us.) BW also adds some nice historical information. Once bit: What one needs […]