Marc Cortez shared the above image in honor of National Punctuation Day, which I had no idea that it was today. But I liked it enough that I thought it was worth passing on. Read more
Marc Cortez shared the above image in honor of National Punctuation Day, which I had no idea that it was today. But I liked it enough that I thought it was worth passing on. Read more
The image above reached me via Brian LePort on Facebook. I did upgrade recently, but since I hadn’t been using Apple Maps to navigate on the go, I didn’t get to experience its shortcomings – as evidenced by the fact that I am still alive. But I do like the elimination in iOS 7 of the limit on space within folders. What have you noticed about the update that you like? Read more
The Peanuts cartoon in yesterday’s paper featured Lucy expressing the view that “the theology is the same” for dogs as it is for humans. I’m less interested in the dog-related question at the moment as I am in other non-humans. Is theology the same for extraterrestrial sentient beings? For artificially intelligent machines? These are the kinds of topics my students and I have been talking about in my class on religion and science fiction. But apparently not only sci-fi, but... Read more
The image is from a post on Pete Enns’ blog, in which he explores a common false antithesis between critical scholarly and high-inerrantist-believing views of the Bible. Thinking about the Bible as the box that conservative Christians try to put God into is a helpful way of highlighting why biblicism is a form of idolatry. Read more
Lots of people post pictures and then have a caption contest. But this photo seems to have its own “caption” included. What’s missing is the context. I took the photo of this sign in front of a local church here in Indianapolis. But what does it mean? Rather than try to find out the actual answer, I thought it would be much more fun to post it on my blog and see what possible explanations for the sign blog readers... Read more
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I’m not sure that I was aware of the report, released in 2010, about the “New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere.” I was directed to it by another blog that I was previously unaware of, Religion Scholars in Progress. Both will potentially be useful to those who are focusing on the theme of Biblical studies students and academic blogging in preparation for the session at SBL in November. Read more
Today’s Indianapolis Star includes an article by Stephanie Wang on academic libraries’ move in the direction of focusing on digital resources. The article mentions me, as I spoke with Ms. Wang on the phone the other day. She had heard from our dean of libraries, whom she also interviewed for the article she was working on, about the fact that I was considering sharing a conference paper in our digital repository even without it being published (yet) as an article.... Read more
My colleague at Butler University, artist Steve Nyktas, has some of his artwork on his website, and it includes some photographs of entirely familiar objects from completely atypical standpoints. The results are often beautiful, but also thought-provoking as they illustrate how much we miss because we view things only from a particular angle that we have become accustomed to. See if you can work out what you are seeing in the examples below, before clicking through to the website to... Read more
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I really like this cartoon. I can well imagine someone responding by asserting that the ten commandments are definitive and leave no room for discussion or comments. But that simply isn’t true, and it has never been true historically. Even in the texts in which we find the ten commandments embedded (in a variety of forms), there are additional passages that interpret, clarify, and otherwise discuss the things that those commandments articulate. And of course, there is also the Mishnah,... Read more