Another new online lecture by Bart Ehrman. Read more
Another new online lecture by Bart Ehrman. Read more
Given that a blogger was actually fired from his job for writing about homophones, it seemed appropriate not only to blog about it but also to share the above cartoon. It predates the incident, and yet seems perfectly designed to poke fun at the ridiculousness and sad irony of someone being fired because of a homophone combined with their employers’ lack of understanding of what homophones are. Read more
A colleague sent me the following information about an upcoming event, a talk by Michael Dowd at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis: FREE Program: “The Future Is Calling Us to Greatness: Coming Home to Reality“, (alt title: “Evidential Inspiration and Realistic Hope”) with Rev. Michael Dowd: Monday, Sept 8, 7:00pm – 8:45pm, Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis, 615 W. 43rd St., Indianapolis, IN 46208 / 317-283-4760/ http://www.uui.org Child care will be provided. This program, geared for adults and teens, builds on Rev. Dowd’s most recent TEDx talk, “Reality Reconciles Science and... Read more
The above quote comes from a post by Jim Kidder in a series that is in turn inspired by a series by David Macmillan about being a former young-earth creationist. See too Dan Arel documenting an example of Ken Ham’s dishonesty regarding the Ark Encounter project. Read more
I decided that it was worth getting an Office 365 subscription in order to be able to work with Microsoft Word and other Office documents on my iPad, including all the relevant features, such as footnotes and review comments. A big frustration that many users have voiced is that there is no built-in integration of Dropbox. But I have discovered that there is an inelegant but effective workaround for those of us who don’t want to give up Dropbox, but... Read more
Under the heading of this post’s title, I will share one example of what it can mean that is appropriate, and one example of what it could mean that is not. Matthew Malcolm has suggested that it would be interesting to have a program unit or other session at the Society of Biblical Literature conference about the gospel in the New Testament – in other words, what the message was that was proclaimed by various individuals and groups in the early... Read more
Wikipedia has been making headlines again. If you haven’t seen it yet, read the article about how someone as a student edited the Wikipedia entry about Amelia Bedelia as a prank, only to encounter it tweeted as fact years later. The second part of the title of this post comes from an article about the tendency of students to try to hide their plagiarism by using a thesaurus, with frequently hilarious as well as unintelligible results. Both of these points are... Read more
James Crossley has a new blog, Harnessing Chaos. It will be of interest to anyone who reads Biblical studies blogs. One of the first few posts highlights another source of interest, the Biblical Studies Online podcasts. Of related interest, Fortress Press has launched Fortress Press Live. Read more
I recently had the privilege to be an invited panelist at a PALNI (Private Academic Library Network of Indiana) strategic planning meeting. For post-dinner entertainment, they had a video contest, with the various libraries in the network entering submissions. The dean of the Butler University libraries, Julie Miller, submitted my “Viva La Library” video as our entry, and it got the most votes. And so it will be featured on the PALNI website in the near future. Here’s a photo of... Read more
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