Another classic of the holiday season! Read more
Another classic of the holiday season! Read more
Via Sean Carroll’s blog, I learned that legendary jazz musician Dave Brubeck passed away today. Read more
I’m grateful to Rachel Held Evans for having sent me an advance review copy of her book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”. I confess I am a bit embarrassed that I’m only blogging about it after the book is already out. But since her book had no shortage of attention in the run up to its release, perhaps I can make up... Read more
Church tradition clearly indicates that the dinosaur did not arrive at the same time as Bill and Ted… But seriously, I do appreciate a sci-fi or other variation on the traditional nativity set, and have shared some in the past. But I like there to be something that is worth talking about in the choice of which figures were placed where, and their relationship (even if by way of contrast) to the traditional story. So what do readers make of... Read more
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We’re still recovering from this year’s Society of Biblical Literature conference. But the call for papers for next year is already on the SBL website. So as soon as you’re ready to, you can start thinking about Baltimore 2013! HT Joel Watts Read more
HT Dănuț Mănăstireanu Read more
This year’s version of an image and message that circulated this time last year, too. Read more
Idegen nyelvet lehet nagyon jól tudni, de jól soha. [Translation: “It is possible to know a foreign language very well, but never well.”] — Dezső Kosztolányi in his 1922 essay “Nyelvtudás” (“Language Knowledge/Learning”) Read more
Also known as “Winter Night.” Read more
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