Friday, April 28, 2006

Please, No More Movies

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OK, is this thing on? Hello? OK. Yes. I'd like to read a press release from the Association of Hollywood Moguls. Hello, American people!...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

When Was the Gospel of Mark Written?

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Since today is the feast day of St. Mark the Evangelist, I hearby announce, in his honor, that almost every scholarly discussion of the date...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

The End of Biblioblogdom?

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I note that Jim West has announced the "dis-integration" of the biblioblogging community. He may well be correct, or not; I don...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

Gnosticism and the Jews

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Misunderstandings and misapprehensions about the Gospel of Judas continue to flow. Secularist commentator Christopher Hitchens, who is appa...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Easter

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Michelangelo's chalk study "The Risen Christ."
Monday, April 10, 2006

More on the Gospel of Judas

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The ole Internet is just a-simmerin' these days with more Gospel of Judas stuff. Several blogs are rounding up links for one-stop-shop...
Thursday, April 06, 2006

Is the Gospel of Judas "Troubling"?

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All right. Here we go *sigh* with another Gnostic Gospel alert. Now the publication today of the Gospel of Judas is providing tons of gris...
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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Tyler's April Seal

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Ha! Tyler Williams has a great April Fool's joke here . Good one! Unfortunately, this post will probably linger on in cyberspace as a re...
Friday, March 31, 2006

A Token of Donne

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Today is the feast day in the Anglican Communion of John Donne, priest, who, besides his accomplishments in divinity, was (on his good days)...
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Saturday, March 25, 2006

Pot in the Bible?

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In answer to a question from Michael Gilleland: 1. There is no credible evidence that the etymology of cannabis (Latin "hemp") is...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

If you don't like the weather ...

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Yesterday we had a big snowstorm, today it is bright and cloudless. It's time to bring out the old cliché, "If you don't like ...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

A Champion Once Again

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I was fortunate enough to be selected a member of the Spelling Bee team at the company I work for , and yesterday we won the Literacy Networ...
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Friday, March 10, 2006

Skinny-Dipping and the Fate of Nations

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The death of John Profumo — a figure likely forgotten by many today — is big with biblical echoes. Profumo was a Conservative cabinet membe...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

A New Book on the Gospels by Garry Wills

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Fr. Edward T. Oakes has a review here of a new book by Garry Wills, What Jesus Meant , which sounds interesting. I refer to Wills's boo...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Girlish Confusion

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Thanks to Targuman for this notice about Israel Drazin's version of Targum Onkelos. I have to mention that this paragraph mystifies m...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Here and There

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—There has appeared an interesting list of "100 best first lines from novels" here , and, in response, a list of " best last ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Comic Books (ii): Marked

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A while back I wrote about C. S. Lewis's expressed desire to write something about the Gospel story that avoided its "stained glass...
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Saturday, January 28, 2006

Brokeback: a Chick Flick?

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Brokeback Mountain is being touted as an issues film of the kind that divides red-staters from blue-staters, and is considered likely to ra...
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Thursday, January 26, 2006

Comic Books (i): Comics as Narrative

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I'm a big fan of comic books, and I've bored many people by trying to convince them that comic books/sequential art/graphic novels a...
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Monday, January 16, 2006

Past Watchful Dragons

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I see from a recent catalog that there are several new books about the Chronicles of Narnia coming out. Well, let a thousand flowers bloom...
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