This actually happened a couple months ago, but I’m never up to speed with such things, am I? As I mentioned in my recent exchange with Slim and Ben, one of the coolest things about the CIY conference that I wrote about was that, bound with the weekend’s program, CIY gave every conference attendee a [...]
If you’ve been following the comments in the right column, you’ll see that Ben Lee, a good friend, has jumped in on the discussion that Slim and I have been having about youth ministry, technology, and what good (if any) large-hall gatherings can have in the discipleship of young Christians. The comments are on this [...]
I don’t normally do advertising on here, but 1and1, the company that hosts this site, is doing a promotion until the end of May (which, I realize, ain’t that far from now), and the rates are really nice.? So if you’ve been thinking about hosting your own site, this might be the time. At any [...]
I took the plunge this summer and decided to leave Mark Musa’s translation of Dante on the shelf. I looked at five different candidates, and I decided to use a 40% off coupon at Borders to get John Ciardi’s translation.? The footnotes are better than Mark Musa’s and the best I could find at Borders, [...]
I can read most Enlightenment-era atheists without a problem; I taught David Hume and Tom Paine (both of whom or neither of whom was really an atheist, depending on whom you ask) this spring, and although I could reproduce the shapes of their arguments for the sake of teaching them, neither strikes me as particularly [...]
Endpaper – Fiction reaches a new level I’m not sure whether to laugh or to cry. Better yet, I’ll just wait until I can get it cheap on eBay.
The Real Life Ticking Bomb Scenario. Tom Tomorrow put this up a couple weeks ago, but it deserves a look if you’ve not looked yet.
ISI Civic Literacy Quiz 2009 This little quiz took me about ten minutes to finish, and when the quiz revealed the two questions that I missed, I realized I had been gaming the quiz on one of them (answering how I figured ISI would have wanted rather than what I thought was right) and that [...]
God Talk, Part 2 I know it was last week’s column, but I did enjoy Fish’s wit last week.? (I’m sure I’ll be back to hating him next month–I can’t decide what I think of him.)? The column starts out with a signature Fish turn of phrase: According to recent surveys, somewhere between 79 and [...]
Well, it’s actually just two weeks.? Mary got on a plane last night to go help with her parents Ollie and Sue, who were in a car wreck a couple weeks ago.? Micah’s going to stay in school a couple weeks longer than normal this year so that I can continue to work at the [...]
GodBlogCon has undergone a name change so that it doesn’t sound so much like a Star Trek convention.? Their new name is the Christian Web Convention, and they’re still doing their thing at Biola University, home of the Scriptorium Daily blog and Middlebrow podcast. If anyone with some excess wealth wants to sponsor my airfare [...]
ROTC and the Future of Liberal Education First, before I forget it, how great is it that the president of Harvard is named Faust?? That’s a goldmine for newspaper headlines as far as I’m concerned.? “Budget Cuts Call for Faustian Bargains.”? “Has Harvard Sold its Soul?”? One could go on all day.? I suppose the [...]
Actually, the new name of the page (as you’ll see if you point your mouse down there) is “SundaySch.”? I had to do something relatively brief so that it would appear on the tab. Because I’ve been producing as much material lately for the teens’ Wednesday night class as I have for the adult Sunday [...]
You want Micah in a tuxedo? We got Micah in a tuxedo! Michial and Victoria’s Wedding
Slim’s Latest Response Ben Lee’s Recent Post on Related Topics I included Ben Lee’s post because, whether unknowingly or in the spirit of unabashed plagiarism, he’s engaging the same kinds of questions that Slim and I have been trying to answer in our exchange of posts. Ben, if you’re reading, why not hook some brothers [...]
I learned that lesson a few days ago–I downloaded a third-party utility that was supposed to be able to convert .rtf files into .lrf files (the native format for the Sony Reader), and I got visions of turning Early English Books Online documents into books to read on my Sony. Bad idea. The third party [...]
Why Protestants Should Read Thomas Aquinas part 1 Why Protestants Should Read Thomas Aquinas part 2 Why Protestants Should Read Thomas Aquinas part 3 Why Protestants Should Read Thomas Aquinas part 4 These posts come from a speech that Fred Sanders delivered, and all of them capture my own love for things medieval.? As Sanders [...]
I heard about this project from the good folks at the Ooze a while ago, and, never able to resist free books, I signed up.? The terms of the deal are that, when I want to, I can request a new theology book that the Ooze is featuring, and as long as I agree to [...]
I wondered if and when this would start happening. ?Last night I had a dream that I was attending some sort of banquet at Emmanuel College (where I start as an assistant professor this fall). ?When I got there, I was informed that I was going to be playing a clarinet solo, accompanied by the [...]
Brainstorm: Over 50 Years Ago! – Chronicle.com. It’s refreshing to see on occasion that there are folks who both value those who have gone before and recognize that some progressive ideas are also likely good ideas.? The pair doesn’t seem contradictory when I think on it, but seeing folks affirm both in print is rare [...]
