It is well known that Alec Guinness did not think at all highly about Star Wars. But he had been hired to play a role, and he did so, and did it well. And so I am surprised that, to my knowledge, no one had added him to the ever-growing collection of “still did their job” memes. Until now, that is. Read more
Butler University’s IT department has created a Wiki to use in training new people, and so they’ve called it a contraction of Wiki IT: Wikit. The obvious Star Wars reference was not lost of them, and so someone made this: Read more
When I’ve sought to reassure students and their parents that travel to Israel is relatively safe, I have often used statistics. In light of the things that have been in the news recently, I thought I should blog about this topic. One is much more likely to be a victim of a homicide in the United States than in Israel, just as one is more likely to be a victim of a traffic accident in the former than the latter.... Read more
It is about time we chose a venue for the blogger dinner in Atlanta, which will be from 5pm on Sunday, November 22nd. Three places seem like natural choices to consider: Max Lager’s Gibney’s Pub Meehan’s Public House Pubs work well for this sort of event, because then people can come and go, can have just drinks, an appetizer, or an entree, and not feel awkward about their choice, and can also get up and chat with other bloggers around... Read more
Tony Burke has shared details about the presenters and papers that will be part of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife panel at the upcoming York Christian Apocrypha Symposium. The keynote speaker will be Bart Ehrman. You can find further details, and the finalized schedule, on the conference website. Read more
To mark the return of Doctor Who to our television screens tomorrow evening, Darton, Longman, and Todd is offering a 30% 33% discount on the book Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith. Just enter the coupon code XOANON when checking out on the DLT website. If you don’t get the reference, there is a serious gap in your knowledge of Doctor Who. If you want it immediately, you can also get the Kindle version of either the British or the American edition. And in case... Read more
The quote comes from the post “How Golden is the Golden Rule?” on Steve Douglas’ blog Undeception. As was pointed out in discussion here previously, a rigidly literalistic adherence to the Golden Rule might lead one to inflict one’s own preferences and desires on others. But clearly the point of the Golden Rule is about empathy. Do you agree that it is a hallmark of the teaching of Jesus, and thus should be a hallmark of the Christian faith? Read more
Hemant Mehta shared the above cartoon. It is always good to ask about things a story doesn’t mention, but which perhaps it should. Gavin Rumney shared an older cartoon that explores a similar idea: Read more
I saw the news about Ahmed Mohamed being handcuffed at his Texas school for bringing to school a clock that he made himself. I lamented the unfair stereotyping of individuals based on their name, their religion, their background. And then I realized that all that transpired in fact confirmed stereotypes that some of us have…of Texans. Perhaps I should also hope that president Obama’s response – inviting Ahmed to the White House – will confirm stereotypes that people have of our president, and... Read more
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