{"id":2563,"date":"2009-01-09T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/society-science-and-scholarship-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T08:57:00","slug":"society-science-and-scholarship-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/society-science-and-scholarship-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Society, Science and Scholarship Around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20090126\/grafton\/single\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Nation<\/a> (HT <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2009_01_04_archive.html#8545687718262881213\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PaleoJudaica<\/a>) has a piece about Guy Stroumsa\u2019s book publishing Morton Smith\u2019s correspondence with Gershom Scholem, which may shed light on the question of whether Smith forged the Secret Gospel of Mark.<\/p>\n<p>Pomomusings is up to <a href=\"http:\/\/pomomusings.com\/2009\/01\/09\/jesus-the-bible-homosexuality-chapter-3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">chapter 3 in Jack Rogers\u2019 <em>Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality<\/em><\/a>. Religion Dispatches discusses \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/religionandtheology\/947\/sex_and_the_seminary%3A_wake_up_and_smell_the_incense\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sex and the Seminary<\/a>\u201d (no, it isn\u2019t a new TV show). Gumby the Cat has the <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gumbythecat\/~3\/506735684\/blistering-critique-of-christian.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">perfect pie-chart on persecution and Pac Man<\/a>. Michael Bird has a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/euangelizomai.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/lords-supper.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Lord\u2019s Supper<\/a> (as well as one about <a href=\"http:\/\/talks2children.itsforministry.org\/t2c\/view.asp?id=230\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/ntgateway.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/abbott-smith-greek-lexicon-for-free.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre<\/a> tells you <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=E-kUAAAAYAAJ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">where<\/a> to find the Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament available for free download in <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/pdf\/A_Manual_Greek_Lexicon_of_the_New_Testam.pdf?id=E-kUAAAAYAAJ&amp;output=pdf&amp;sig=ACfU3U3V9qUfrU0aa66kk6E2KD_cR0P8oQ&amp;source=gbs_summary_r&amp;cad=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pdf<\/a> format.<\/p>\n<p>New Scientist has a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20126905.100-immoral-advances-is-science-out-of-control.html?full=true\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">morality and our emotional reactions to scientific innovations<\/a>. Douglas Anderson offers a perspective on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pastorbobcornwall.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/news-from-religion-and-science-front.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interaction of religion and science<\/a>. Psychologists have been investigating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/news_releases\/spirituality_not_religion_makes_kids_happy_say_psychologists\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">spirituality and hapiness in children<\/a>. John Whitfield is <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bloggingtheorigin\/2009\/01\/among_the_small_thrills_of.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blogging <em>On The Origin of Species <\/em><\/a>as he reads it for the first time. V. V. Raman suggests that the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandreligiontoday.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/arguments-for-atheism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">conflict between the religious and atheists<\/a> will never be resolved, because (among other things):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God is not so much an entity hiding somewhere like an Easter egg, to be uncovered by an eager searcher, but rather a deeply felt experience that humans are capable of. God, like music, is to be experienced, and no analysis of musical notes can prove or disprove the joy and ecstasy that comes from listening. Like the colors of the rainbow, God is a resonance in the conscious soul to an aspect of the world that instruments and theorems, syllogisms and scrutiny, can never unravel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the sci-fi front, Gabriel McKee shares <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgospel.typepad.com\/sf_gospel\/2009\/01\/a-months-worth-of-links.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a month\u2019s worth of links<\/a>, on subjects that include religion in Battlestar Galactica\u2019s final season. <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5127096\/watchmen-pics-transformers-poster-terminator-scoop-and-a-lost-shocker\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9 has the latest news<\/a>, including the commercial for the \u201cenhanced\u201d version of the LOST season finale from last year, which will air next Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s a poem by Jacqueline Osherow asking whether the universe is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2009\/01\/gods-acrosticjaqueline-osherowwhat-if-the-universe-is-gods-acrostiches-sneaking-bits-of-proverbs-into-seismic-variatio.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">God\u2019s acrostic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2180389041183652518?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation (HT PaleoJudaica) has a piece about Guy Stroumsa\u2019s book publishing Morton Smith\u2019s correspondence with Gershom Scholem, which may shed light on the question of whether Smith forged the Secret Gospel of Mark. Pomomusings is up to chapter 3 in Jack Rogers\u2019 Jesus, the Bible and Homosexuality. Religion Dispatches discusses \u201cSex and the Seminary\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Society, Science and Scholarship Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Nation (HT PaleoJudaica) has a piece about Guy Stroumsa&#039;s book publishing Morton Smith&#039;s correspondence with Gershom Scholem, which may shed light on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/society-science-and-scholarship-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Society, Science and Scholarship Around the Blogosphere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Nation (HT PaleoJudaica) has a piece about Guy Stroumsa&#039;s book publishing Morton Smith&#039;s correspondence with Gershom Scholem, which may shed light on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/01\/society-science-and-scholarship-around-the-blogosphere.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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