How do you cite a tweet in an academic paper? Or, how do you do so with the approval of said authorities? Begin the entry in the works-cited list with the author’s real name and, in parentheses, user name, if both are known and they differ. If only the user name is known, give it alone. Next provide the entire text of the tweet in quotation marks, without changing the capitalization. Conclude the entry with the date and time of... Read more
I got this letter from a reader the other day. After the letter I offer a response. Hi Scot, I’ve spent the last 2 weeks (on vacation) pouring over King Jesus Gospel and OneLife…. I believe I’m on the same page with you in terms of the progression from the Eikons to Israel’s kings to Jesus to His followers in terms of living in a kingdom mindset. I suppose I would paraphrase it as putting more emphasis on Jesus is... Read more
In my office the other day a student complained about his younger sibling, and then mentioned a roommate had the same experience with his younger sibling; the point of said complaint was that the younger teens are addicted to texting and their cell phones. “They can’t live without them,” he observed. Which leads to Stephen Carter’s recent post: In recent years, there has been no shortage of reports ontelevision about researchers who say they have found teens addicted to their mobile phones.... Read more
As we move through Lent and approach Easter it has become commonplace to have questions surrounding the historicity of the early Christian faith hit the news. This year James Tabor has once again hit the news (complete with forthcoming book and Discovery Channel “documentary”) with the purported discovery of a first century tomb in Jerusalem dated between 20 and 70 CE with Christian symbols and phrases inscribed on ossuaries. The tomb is located near the “Jesus Tomb” he hit the... Read more
This post is by Michael Kruse, and deals with how the church and business people need to work together. The business world frequently hinders our integration of faith with work but the church creates its own obstacles as well. We continue today with John Knapp’s How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it). The previous post looked at how the business world contributes to the divide between faith and work. Now we are looking at Chapter... Read more
Emily Temple, at Flavorwire, posts on the ten most influential females in literature. Who is missing? Who is the most influential for you? Since March is Women’s History Month, we’ve been thinking a lot about the women who have had positive and lasting impacts on our lives — and perhaps not surprisingly for a bunch of literary geeks like us, we’ve realized that many of them are fictional. For all the hullabaloo about the dearth of strong female characters in... Read more
By Jonah Lehrer: For thousands of years, human beings have looked down on their emotions. We’ve seen them as primitive passions, the unfortunate legacy of our animal past. When we do stupid things – say, eating too much cake, or sleeping with the wrong person, or taking out a subprime mortgage – we usually blame our short-sighted feelings. People commit crimes of passion. There are no crimes of rationality. This bias against feeling has led people to assume that reason... Read more
Very few exclusivists today are as robust in their claims as is Daniel Strange in his essay on the relation of Christianity to the world religions (in Only One Way? Three Christian Responses on the Uniqueness of Christ in a Religiously Plural World, by Gavin D’Costa, Paul Knitter, Daniel Strange). For the robustness alone this study is important reading for anyone interested in this topic – and the dialogue that follows later in the book shows that a Roman Catholic... Read more
“It is not in heaven that we find God, but in God we find heaven.” Studies of the new heavens and new earth, and I’m thinking especially of Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, have brought heaven back to earth because they have urged us to look again at what the New Testament actually says about heaven (not up in the sky somewhere where we flit to and fro as disembodied souls). This has been a noteworthy improvement for theology in... Read more
The study contends in 2030 Britain will officially be less Christian than secular. [Bad use of stats, but interesting.] The march of secularism means Britain may no longer be a Christian country in just 20 years, a report said yesterday. If trends continue, the number of non-believers is set to overtake the number of Christians by 2030. Christianity is losing more than half a million believers every year, while the count of atheists and agnostics is going up by almost... Read more
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