David Hayward posted this image on his blog earlier today: David didn’t seem to have problems with the disconnect between the methods, or the message, of Joel Osteen in comparison with Jesus. Yet the “Nailed It” meme is all about people trying to do something and missing the mark so badly that it is funny. Here are a couple of geeky examples: There’s another one with princess Leia in this collection. I think that a more suitable image, in keeping... Read more
Via the Butler Connection, I learned about this upcoming event: University of Indianapolis Professor of Biology Dr. John Langdon and former microbiologist/current pastor of Cross and Crown Lutheran Church Rev. Christine Wulff will discuss the intersection of faith and science at the Center for Faith and Vocation, 4615 Sunset Ave., beginning at 6:30 p.m.Friday, Aug. 23. Have you had the impression that faith and science are mutually exclusive? That believing in God and taking religion seriously means “checking your brain at the door”... Read more
I made the infographic above in response to a discussion of an infographic I recently shared, which led to a discussion of the problem of infographics with dubious information. I'm particularly grateful to commenter Cosmo Fish for a comment with an amusing made-up statistic that helped inspire this! Read more
The Gospel of John may be the first Gospel that we know of to bring the question of its author’s credentials into the work itself (the Gospel of Luke does something similar, with its emphasis on the author’s research, but it may or may not be earlier than John). In the period not long after this, we would see a proliferation of Gospels, letters, and other works appealing to named apostles in order to vouchsafe the new ideas that they... Read more
Joel Watts posted the infographic below. If its statistics are true, they are depressing… Read more
Marc Cortez was one of several people to share a UK heritage blue plaque about a time traveler. I thought that this one made more sense: Read more
I had an online course offering drawn to my attention, via Keith Furman’s blog. Denis Lamoureux is offering an online course, an introduction to religion and science, which some readers of this blog might be interested in taking. But even if not, they may find the lectures and other materials on the course web site interesting and useful. Read more
Genres are less like pigeon-holes than like pigeons. Constantly moving, endlessly diverse, and always multiplying. –Ken Brown on Facebook paraphrasing Carol Newsome’s quote from Alistair Fowler Read more
I came across this image online: It is perhaps less than convincing to try to think of this as anything other than “Saint Peter's Church” with a missing letter, since anyone who would get the apostrophe correct in “Peter's” would surely also put one in “Ain't” – or perhaps more likely write “This is not.” But there are still lots of ways to have a good conversation using this image as a starting point. To whom do churches belong? To... Read more
Via Rachel Held Evans, I learned of this recent XKCD comic: Instead of having these nightmares, you can actually avoid them by taking some simple steps while a student: Read the syllabus. Put deadlines into an electronic calendar like Outlook, and put a reminder alert scheduled for as long before that deadline as you need, in order to have enough time to research it and write it properly. Better still, put a deadline in by which you will expect yourself... Read more
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