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December 2012

December 28, 2012

Is Religious Studies a Useless Degree?

Scot McKnight shared a link to a Yahoo! News item which listed five "useless" and...

December 27, 2012

Les Misérables: The College Parody

Via Inside Higher Ed, I discovered this parody of Les Misérables which depicts instead the despair...

December 13, 2012

Durham Theses of Interest

Via Ancient World Online, I learned of an enormous horde of doctoral and masters theses...

December 12, 2012

Early Gospels PhD Opportunity at University of Durham

John Byron and Sean Winter have already mentioned this opportunity to work with Francis Watson at...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

The Jesus SeM&Minar as Teaching Tool

I've mentioned here before the class activity I use when teaching my course on the...

November 13, 2012

How and What we Learn and Teach

I am taking an online course at Butler, offered to faculty who are gearing up...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Around the Blogosphere: The Varieties of Fundamentalisms

Here's a round-up of some blogging on several topics of longstanding interest: Michael Pahl is...

October 11, 2012

Conference on Religion and Technology

Vadim Putzu drew to my attention this conference at Franklin & Marshall College: Conference on...

August 2012

August 21, 2012

The New Mindset List

The "Mindset List" for freshmen starting college or university this year (2012, and thus set...

August 17, 2012

If I Had One Hour To Live…

As many of us prepare to teach again, professors are thinking already about how students...

August 16, 2012

Do Students Still Need to Steer Clear of the Internet?

Jona Lendering posted a reply on his blog to a recent post on mine, about...

August 15, 2012

Online Sources in the Classroom

In my current teaching, I focus increasing amounts of attention on the discerning use of...

August 09, 2012

What We’re Learning from Online Education

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Who Thinks Professors are Unfriendly towards Religion?

Some people do in just about every category imaginable. But in only two categories in...

June 11, 2012

The Letters after this Candidate’s Name are Apparently BS

I feel the need to comment on the irony in recent events involving Matt Arnold,...

June 08, 2012

The EThOS of Open Access

Thanks to Nick Norelli for highlighting that a number of UK doctoral dissertations - including...

May 2012

May 07, 2012

Time for the End of the Sectarian University?

Churches have long been instrumental in the establishment of universities. Some of the most prestigious...

May 06, 2012

Home Safe and Sound

I'm back safe and sound and without delays from Lethbridge. Here's a photo taken from...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

The Price and Value of Academic Textbooks and Journals

Soon after seeing the piece in IO9 about Harvard University, the world's wealthiest university, finding...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Sanctum Santorum

You gotta admire Rick Santorum's honesty. I suspect that most politicians hope that the majority...

February 15, 2012

Quote of the Day (Lee Bessette)

"One of my husband’s former professor’s used to tell her students that education is the...

February 01, 2012

CFP Comics, Religion & Politics

Via Religion CFP and NSRN online I learned of this call for papers: ‘Comics, Religion...

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Rick Santorum’s Educational Hypocrisy

Lots of people have mentioned Rick Santorum's outrageous anti-education statement. He said, “It’s no wonder...

January 17, 2012

Research in Religious Studies Conference Call for Papers

From Jim Linville: The Religious Studies Department, at the University of Lethbridge, will present the...

January 12, 2012

Could God Get Tenure?

I came across a bit of educational humor which I thought might be worth sharing,...

December 2011

December 14, 2011

Prof. Matthew Morgenstern on the History of Jewish Aramaic

December 05, 2011

Redaction Criticism, Star Trek, and the Bible (Director’s Cut)

To err is human. To learn to take the time to revise and improve on...

November 2011

November 23, 2011

Pepper Spray and Star Wars (May the Excessive Force NOT be with You!)

I only caught a glimpse of the news about the use of pepper spray on...

November 23, 2011

Soma: An International Journal of Theological Discourses and Counter-Discourses

A new electronic, peer reviewed, open access journal in theology launched during AAR Here is...

November 20, 2011

On Installing a New University President

Yesterday, after the subject had come up of Butler University having recently installed its new...

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