The “Recent Comments” feature in Blogger was displaying some very non-recent comments, so I removed it. I could make my own using the comments feed, but before doing so I thought I’d ask whether anyone actually visits the blog and looks to see if there are any recent comments. If not, presumably it would be [...]

I just finished watching the movie Invictus. It is incredibly inspirational, and so let me just share the poem by William Ernest Henley that inspired Nelson Mandela in prison, and which gives its name to the movie. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to [...]

Andrew Perriman has an interesting post about how the usual meaning of the term skēnopoios, translated in the English versions of the Acts of the Apostles as “tent-maker” (Acts 18:3), is a stagehand or maker of theatrical scenery. If that were Paul’s profession, how might we think differently about him? How might it change the way we [...]

“A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning will be taken as a curse!” – Proverbs 27:14 (New Living Translation) This post is for anyone who has awoken to – or more precisely, has been awoken by – this sound: For such a tiny bird, the Carolina Wren is impressively loud.[Bonus points if they [...]

One of the clear signs that various Who’s Who organizations that I’ve mentioned before on this blog are scams is the fact that every day my spam filter usually contains at least one “final notice” from them about my “opportunity” to be included in their Who’s Who directory. All the ones I’ve come across thus far [...]

Out of curiosity as to where the 2012 International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature might be held, I typed “SBL International 2012″ into a search engine. This quickly led me to a site which informed me that “According to the SBL project director, the extra functions of SBL include “defending/attacking anti-space-based fights (i.e., [...]

Mark Goodacre shared this video earlier today, but I didn’t find the time to watch it until this evening. It explains why most scholars think the Gospel of Mark was the first of the canonical Gospels to be written – using Mr. Potato Head!