Via The Sacred Page, here’s a video about the way people speak today. IO9 has a music video about a man who dumps his girlfriend because she doesn’t like Firefly. Arni Zachariassen wants the VelociPastor movie to evolve from spoof to reality. And finally, a more serious video via Doug Chaplin, about the way technology is changing our lives. Or as one title of the series puts it, “Shift Happens.” Read more

There’s an article in Inside Higher Ed on teaching students how to read scholarly journals. The title is “It’s Not Harry Potter.” Read more

Via the Hugoye list-serv, I learned a few moments ago that the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library has a blog, maintained by Adam McCollum. Pay a visit and welcome Dr. McCollum to the (biblio)blogosphere! Read more

If you have been puzzled by the recent controversy that has emerged surrounding Rob Bell, you should read the interview Rachel Held Evans posted today. She interviews Rob Bell, and if you read the interview, you’ll understand why he was more puzzled by this whole affair than anyone else. Read more

Hemant Mehta shared a new word, but I would like to tweak the definition slightly for use in the biblioblogosphere. FACEPSALM: v. The act of facepalming as a result of the use or misuse of Scripture. When you encounter eisegesis, dilettantism, or anything else that makes you facepalm, now you can do something even more appropriate: you can facepsalm. Read more

Tom Verenna asked me to express one of my arguments in the form of a syllogism, and Tom has blogged his response to my attempt. Readers interested in the historical figure of Jesus, or more generally in historical method, are encouraged to take a look. But if you have a strong background in formal logic, you are strongly encouraged to take a look, and perhaps offer a better attempt at turning typical historical-critical arguments into the language of logic than I... Read more

The title doesn’t reflect an actual denomination (perhaps it should?) but a range of views reflected in posts around the blogosphere. Encapsulating the most is an image shared by Jonathan Robinson (originally from Sacred Sandwich): Undeception addresses simplistic assumptions about being “Biblical” or “Evangelical.” And while some continue to stress the supernatural, Diglotting talks about progressive Christianity, while Michael Dowd asks whether Biblicist Christianity is bankrupt, rejecting notions of the supernatural and exploring the idea of God as personification. And... Read more

I’ve discovered a new app for the iPad and iPhone, called neu.Annotate, which does many of the things that iAnnotate offers, but for free. I am a huge fan of iAnnotate and my experience thus far suggests that it is worth the relatively small amount of money it costs. But if you are resistant to taking the plunge and paying for an app, neu.Annotate will at least give you an introduction to what it can be like to digitally mark... Read more

I just went out to see the NASA space shuttle Discovery (on its final mission) and International Space Station transit overhead. I didn’t expect them to be as bright and as clearly visible as they were, especially since there is a bit of cloudy haze. It was pretty spectacular! Below is a video someone took last year that gives some sense of what it is like, if you missed it (there’ll be another opportunity tomorrow, if you’re in the right... Read more

A new article in First Monday bears the title “Blogs and Blogging: Current Trends and Future Directions.” It looks at blogging on research and research on blogging. Read more