The blogosphere is still recovering from Blogger’s outage. Posts that had been deleted seem to be being restored. Here are some interesting things from around the blogs that are still there for your reading pleasure.
Marc Cortez shares the nine steps of commenting on the internet.
Dan McClellan mentions a book on religion and the X-Files that sounds interesting: We Want to Believe: Faith and Gospel in the X-Files
Jim Davila mentions a news piece on the lead plates, which ignores all the skepticism and cautionary remarks expressed by scholars. Hopefully that’s not what Marvin Meyer was alluding to in a recent interview.
Larry Hurtado and Helen Bond are among those who drew attention to a New Testament position at the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and I expect whoever gets the job to be very happy there.
Hurtado also posted on the Secret Gospel of Mark.
Nathan Macdonald mentions a publication discussing the so-called curse of monotheism.
RJS has his second post in the series Being Human at Jesus Creed.
Steve Wiggins posted a satirical curriculum of Biblical science, which got reactions from Scott and Joel.
At BioLogos, the (ancient Mesopotamian) plain sense of the Bible.
Bart Ehrman’s book Forged
Blogs and bloggers mentioning Harold Camping’s (latest) prediction of the Rapture include John Byron, Joel Watts, John Pieret, Jason Boyett, Unreasonable Faith and IO9. Atheists are offering to help pick up the pieces after the predicted apocalypse.
Inside Higher Ed has an article on eBooks and iPads, which concludes that new media and devices have matched coffee in terms of importance among students, although they have yet to catch up with beer.
John Loftus mentioned my series blogging through Earl Doherty’s book.
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