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November 25, 2010

Responsible Blog Ownership

This post was inspired by something Ken Schenck said to me on the flight back...

November 25, 2010

Bob Cargill’s Presentations from the Blogger Session at #SBL10

Bob Cargill has shared both his introductory remarks and his paper, "Instruction, Research, and the...

November 25, 2010

Three Important Thanksgiving Messages

The first is to wish all readers who celebrate Thanksgiving today a Happy Thanksgiving.The second...

November 24, 2010

The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship

What follows below is the text of my presentation at the session on blogging and...

November 23, 2010

Bloggership: The #SBL10 Session on Blogging and Online Publication

"Bloggership" is a term for scholarly blogging which I learned at the SBL session on...

November 23, 2010

Fear and Faith in the Blogosphere

Several posts over the last few days have touched on the topics of courage and...

November 23, 2010

Lostaholics Anonymous and Christianity

Nikki Stafford has posted her latest installment in her blog series "Lostaholics Anonymous." The subject...

November 23, 2010

Two Pictures of Me #SBL10

Joel Watts snapped a photo of me presenting at the section on blogging at the...

November 23, 2010

SBLogging

By complete coincidence I am sitting next to Ken Schenck, a good friend and fellow...

November 19, 2010

Continuing Conversation with Larry Hurtado on Monotheism, Christology and Worship

I am delighted that Larry Hurtado has taken the time to respond to my earlier...

November 19, 2010

What Just Happened? Jim Davila’s Concise History of Biblioblogging

Jim Davila has made his conference paper on biblioblogging available on his blog. The title...

November 18, 2010

Tony Burke reviews The Heresy of Orthodoxy

Tony Burke is blogging his way through The Heresy of Orthodoxy by Kostenberger and Kruger. Today...

November 18, 2010

Project Information Literacy

Many thanks to Jim Getz for drawing attention to Project Information Literacy, and in particular...

November 18, 2010

The Temporary Burial of Jesus

Christians have historically believed that Jesus' burial was temporary - but that is not what...

November 18, 2010

Technology, Teaching, Scholarship – and Surprises

The Stoa Consortium shares evidence that open access scholarship gets cited more frequently in other...

November 18, 2010

Evangelicals and Evolution

At BioLogos, Evangelical biologist Dennis Vennema continues to present evidence for common ancestry.At Jesus Creed,...

November 16, 2010

Responding to Larry Hurtado’s Review

Let me begin by saying once again how much I appreciate Larry Hurtado taking the...

November 16, 2010

God, Geocentrism and Gravity-Denial

Panda's Thumb offers scientific evidence against geocentrism, with cool astronomy pictures that illustrate the point....

November 16, 2010

Petition for the Mandaeans

A petition has been created to lobby for the Mandaeans still suffering persecution in Iraq...

November 16, 2010

The Hebrew Bible’s Hidden Message

This post isn't about messages supposedly hidden in the Bible in "Bible code" fashion. But...

November 15, 2010

The End Isn’t Near

HT Danut Manastireanu

November 15, 2010

Facebook and the Future of Instructional Technology

Bob Cargill offers a reflection on the announcement that Facebook will soon offer e-mail. Here...

November 14, 2010

Dante’s Darksiders

The Lead shared links to posts and articles on a variety of religiously-themed video games.One...

November 13, 2010

Herding Cats and Conspiracy Theorists

HT to Tom Verenna for pointing out a blog post at Muertos's Blog which explains how...

November 13, 2010

James Tabor on the Jesus son of Pantera Traditions

James Tabor has a blog entry on the traditions about Jesus son of Pantera. This...

November 13, 2010

Don’t Trust Paul on Marriage

The blog Prophetic Progress has a provocative entry suggesting that Paul's thinking on marriage is...

November 13, 2010

No Handouts at SBL

One proposed alternative to expensive projector rental fees for the Society of Biblical Literature conference...

November 12, 2010

Zeitgeist Mythicists

Tom Verenna not long ago proposed categorizing and distinguishing among mythicists, to provide further clarity about the variety...

November 12, 2010

Nailed

Hemant Mehta is giving away a copy of a mythicist book. The title is Nailed:...

November 12, 2010

Mandaeans and Mandaic in Rutgers Today

Charles Haberl's work on studying and documenting the Mandaean language are the focus of an...

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