I am grateful to John Shuck of Shuck and Jive blog for bestowing upon me a Superior Scribbler Award. Of course, as with every Bloggy Award, there are A Few Rules. They are, forthwith: Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends. Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award. Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog,... Read more

The web site for the Hubble telescope (HT IO9) has made holiday cards available that you can download and print for free. Here is a small sample of what’s available: Read more

I must admit I am confused by the rants in which Roger Pearse is engaging over on his blog. He began by misconstruing what I said in a blog post of my own. Then, when I repeatedly tried to clarify my meaning (which, to be honest, I don’t think was all that unclear to begin with), he has now accused me of “brinking” because I refused to allow him to twist my words and set the terms of the discussion... Read more

Tonight’s episode of Heroes presented what one might expect to encounter if one had access to the comic books produced by someone who genuinely could see the future. Precise dialogues depicted, word for word, including even the questioning and skepticism of those who participate in them and don’t think such things are possible. In most instances of prophecy and apocalyptic visions, we get symbolism, vague characterizations, and language that is flexible enough that it can be (and has been) applied... Read more

Jim West seems to think that watching this video will cause me to “abandon my ways”: It certainly has cured me of any desire I might have had to sing to a monkey on TV… Read more

Today, December 1st 2008, marks the 90th anniversary of the decision by various counties and regions to join and become part of the nation of Romania. History buffs can see an image of the national assembly resolution online, which 90 years ago created the modern nation. Happy birthday, Romania! La multi ani! Read more

It seems ironic to me that Roger Pearse has now taken the step of censoring my responses to him, since the discussion began with the topic of being “less friendly”. Here’s the comment he “unapproved”: “Lynch the Christians”? Why would I want to have myself lynched? Presumably you have brought a great deal of baggage to this subject, and have made some assumptions about where I am coming from. I am sure you will remain persuaded that I am the... Read more

The latest Biblical Studies Carnival has been posted by Jim West. Read more

This was shared by PhDiva (HT Jim Davila): In case you can’t read the caption, it says “Oh, I am so blogging about this”. Read more

In my round-up of SBL blogging, I mentioned the comment that was made by Bill Mounce about SBL, of various organizations he mentioned, being the “least friendly to Evangelicals”. My comment was that there is an irony about this, since there are plenty of not only Evangelicals but conservative Evangelicals in SBL, and they present all the time. Yet if one is not the “right sort” of Evangelical, then ETS (for instance) suddenly becomes an unfriendly place. And so I... Read more