Bryan Bibb has uploaded a talk he gave with the title “Why Are You Here? Religious Studies, The Bible, and Liberal Education” to Academia.edu. Those who teach Biblical studies as part of the Liberal Arts and/or their core curriculum, and who navigate the waters between religious studies and theology and between secular education and religious commitments, will find it interesting. Read more
There are several recent reviews of the volume I edited, Religion and Science Fiction, partly due to its re-release in the UK by Lutterworth Press. And so I thought I should mention and link to the reviews here. Some of them require a subscription in order to read more than a snippet of them, alas, and so if anyone reading this has a subscription to Church Times and would like to send me a copy of the review, I would be grateful!... Read more
The Library of Trinity College Dublin has made the entire Book of Kells available online! If you like that, you’ll probably like this Anglo-Saxon Psalter in the French National Library too! Read more
Marc Cortez shared this diagram, which is like one that I shared previously, but is a bit more helpful in spelling out what the axis lines represent. What do you think? I think it is also perhaps more helpful than the Dawkins Scale. But the footnote suggests that things are still complicated, and there is still no incorporation of the fact that one may be graphed differently on such a chart in relation to different ideas of God. Read more
In response to my recent posts about sharing, it was pointed out that Delicious also allows for the public sharing of links. And so I have created a Delicious account, using the same nickname as I use on Twitter, ReligionProf, and will share things there for those who may prefer that format. UPDATE: You should be able to add my shared items from Delicious to your RSS feed reader, to replace the one from The Old Reader. The feed address... Read more
I mentioned needing a replacement for TheOldReader. I am going to give Feedly a try – it looks promising. The main thing it lacks is the ability to share select posts to an RSS feed. But I think there is a solution which may be acceptable to those who've enjoyed that sidebar or RSS feature. Feedly makes it very easy to share things to Twitter and Facebook. And so to replace the sidebar, I can share things to Twitter, and/or... Read more
It sounds as though the enterprising individuals who created The Old Reader didn’t anticipate just how popular their creation would be, and just how much work it would take to maintain it. And so they will be eliminating their public site and most of the accounts soon. And so once again, I find myself in need of a replacement for my current RSS feed reader. This was my last, best hope at having an RSS reader which was accessible through... Read more
A post about philosophy and humor appeared on 3quarksdaily. It included this famous bit of humor: There is a well-known joke about Talmudic interpretation. A Jew is talking to his Rabbi. Rabbi,” the man said, “Explain the Talmud to me.” “Very well,” he said. “First, I will ask you a question. If two men climb up a chimney and one comes out dirty, and one comes out clean, which one washes himself?” “The dirty one,” answers the man. “No. They... Read more
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