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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 67.2: Good News for Anxious Christians
- Episode 67.1: The Office of Assertion
- Episode 67.03: The Best Music of 2011
- Episode 67.02: St. Nicholas at Nicea
- Episode 67.01: Singing Faith
- Episode 67: A Christmas Carol
- Episode 66: Desert Island Books
- Episode 65: Academic Conferences
- Episode 64: Environmentalism
- Episode 63.11: Technical Difficulties
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Another Desktop Tower Defense Board
I just posted a score of more than 5600 on medium difficulty, my best game yet. I let one flying creep from the last flying wave and both flying bosses through.? I stopped all ground assaults.? Now back to studying … Continue reading
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Another Surrender to Pop Culture
I’ve finally gone and downloaded a ringtone.? (The content was free, but I’ll have to pay for the data feed, which does not receive a monthly allowance on my phone bill.) Now, if my phone isn’t on silent, my phone … Continue reading
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New Couch
We’ve made some changes around the house recently. The desktop computer and its desk, along with some of my bookshelves, are no longer in the TV room but in our bedroom. The futon is in the garage, waiting for Ollie … Continue reading
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My Latest Winning Layout
Yes, I’m addicted to Desktop Tower Defense. I can’t help it.
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The Conventions of Psalms
I’ve been thinking of late about claims that education is or is not a moral exercise.? My readers should not be surprised that I’ve always thought of teaching as shot through with morality.? Today’s lecture, on its face far from … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Bobby Fischer
I know Heath Ledger has already bumped the chess giant as the celebrity death of the week, but I’m just now getting my head around the fact that the greatest American chess player of all time is dead.? I’m conflicted … Continue reading
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Return to WIRED
A sixth grader in my neighborhood was selling magazine subscriptions for a school fund raiser back in late November, and being the sucker that I am for supporting public schools, I bought a one-year subscription to WIRED.? I subscribed to … Continue reading
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Some Good Winter Pictures
Early January There are only about ten pictures here, but they’re good ones.? Enjoy!
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Snow in Georgia
The bummer is that I had to sit inside most of the day, working at the public library, while the most intense snow that I’ve seen in Georgia was going on outside.? The nice thing is that it’s still nothing … Continue reading
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The Bible as Moral Instructor: A Reflection on Teaching the Joseph Narratives
I love teaching the compact yet complex lessons that texts like Genesis 37-50 allow. In seventy short minutes I led my students through Joseph’s moral ambiguity, noting early hints of a scheming nature, a complicity if not a direct malice … Continue reading
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An Experiment in American Intellectual History
I just got done reading the first essay of The Federalist, and I think I’m going to try to read all eighty-five of them over the next couple months, largely for the sake of better teaching in the future. Whenever … Continue reading
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The Resurrection as Hermeneutical Event
I had heard in lectures that Catholic theology held that the Christ-event added a sensus plenior (fuller sense) to the texts of the Bible (that is to say, the Old Testament) that they did not have before.? Now I’ve actually … Continue reading
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Vocation and Job
Several things make me think about work lately. On one hand, my formal schedule is looser this school year than it’s been since I started college in 1995. UGA only expects me to be in a particular place at a … Continue reading
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Posts on other blogs
I just cranked out new and (I hope) substantive posts over at Christian Feminism and Conservative Reformed Mafia, so I won’t try to press my luck and try something good here.? Just go to those places and comment there.
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Adjuncts and Anger
Call to Arms for Academic Labor The comments section is more interesting than the article itself, IMO. When I read some of the nasty posts that use typically capitalist/conservative talking points, it occurs to me both that those called to … Continue reading
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Bible Translation for Freshmen
I tried out my translation exercise today, and it went off quite well.? I had my students get into groups of three or four, and each student got a copy of January 10?s?Handout.? Then they got about fifteen minutes to … Continue reading
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Football is no Place for Democracy
I just looked at the score from last night’s minor league football game, and it looks like Ohio State was once again overmatched.? Perhaps instead of choosing the last two teams the way high schools choose their homecoming queens, the … Continue reading
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The origin of an insult
I actually ran across this a while ago, but I kept forgetting to blog it.? There’s a particular kind of insult that schoolyard bullies toss about, nastier than most.? You’ll see what kind in a moment.? The point is that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Goofing Around
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Too Many Blogs
So here’s a roster of the blogs with which I’m currently involved: Hardly the Last Word.? You’re already here. Conservative Reformed Mafia.? I just published the first part of a book discussion there. iwonderasiwander.? I’ve not posted there since December, … Continue reading
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Ready to Rumble
My photocopies are in, my class website is updated, my request for a desk copy to replace my tattered Harper-Collins Study Bible is in, and I’ve got a page of notes ready for tomorrow’s classes. Let the Bible madness begin!!
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