Bob Macdonald shared a link to this pdf of a Facebook Passion. It is hilarious, and definitely worth reading, especially for scholars and students of the New Testament (who will nit pick about some details but are almost guaranteed nevertheless to find themselves amused and entertained)!

http://www.collegehumor.com/moogaloop/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1931187&fullscreen=1 See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. HT IO9

Via the Society of Biblical Literature newsletter I learned of this musical composition competition: If you know a young composer who would like to submit and possibly win a prize for a musical composition using the King James Version of the Bible go to this site: The 2011 Trust. The 2011 Trust is promoting the [...]

Through an advertising e-mail from Dove Booksellers, I learned about a series of commentaries on the works of Philo published by E. J. Brill and the Society of Biblical Literature. They are expensive as hardcovers but also available as relatively inexpensive paperbacks. Here is a sample of one volume via Google Books:

I began this episode feeling just a little like Sayid: nothing, no anger, no sorrow, losing emotional attachment to this show that I and so many of you have followed for years. Just a handful of episodes before it all ends – could there be anything else I could learn about the characters? Any more [...]

A seasonally-appropriate video at the intersection of religion and sci-fi. And a happy Passover to all who celebrate it – human or not! HT Thoughts In A Haystack

I’ve seen quite a few bloggers place “Christian” in quotation marks when referring to the “Christian Militia” group Hutaree which has been making headlines recently. There is a Hutaree web site here. I do hope that people will be consistent in how they refer to groups such as Christian militias and Islamic terrorists. We can either acknowledge that [...]