"Happiness is something more than simply the absence of neurosis or sickness," said Emilia Zhivotovskaya. "To build a flourishing life, you want to minimize -- not eliminate! -- the negative and build the positive." Emiliya spoke with my cohort of Rabbis ... [Rabbis Without Borders]
Acts 1:6-8 The Jesus Creed and God’s Mission One cold winter’s eve a world renowned scholar and missiologist was invited to speak to our church about Mission. As the pleasantries were dispensed with, the speaker invited questions. One person asked... [mission][The Jesus Creed][evangelism][Question]
When: October 4-6, 2013 Where: The Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ Keynote Speaker: Debra Lampshire Experience-based expert, Senior Tutor at the University of Auckland, and Project Manager for Auckland District Health Board in New Zealand Honorees: Mariu... [Conference announcement][Psychoanalysis]
If you would like to help with the Oklahoma disaster relief you can do so through United Israel. You can either send a check made out to UIWU and marked “Oklahoma Tornado Relief 2013″ or more directly via Paypal by using the Donate link be... [Event][General]
But I’m not going toblast myself to death about gay marriage. A far-right French historian shot himself in the head beside the altar of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today apparently in protest against the legalisation of gay marriage in France. ... [Modern Culture]
This podcast, suggesting a gentle wry smile in Dt 1:6 was inspired by a blog post from Rabbi Michal Shekelk1nsh2s2 “Could it be possible to stay too long at the site of Revelation?” There are also quotes from: Tigay, J. Deuteronomy. Jewish Pub... [Deuteronomy][humour]
This Saturday I will be presenting at the Ecclesia and Ethics Online Conference on “The Revealing of the Sons of God: Paul’s Restorative Eschatology in the Epistle to the Romans”. For those who are registered, and who are considering att... [conference][conference][Ecclesia and Ethics]
Robert Gordis suggests that, "The outstanding literary characteristic of the author of Esther is his interest in the swift flow of the action. He, therefore, strips the plot of all non-essentials, concentrating on events rather than on motivations,... [Literary Analysis][old testament][Expository Preaching][Esther][Preaching]
As of today, Logos’ marketing department has 21 openings. We’re looking for writers, editors, coders, strategists, managers, and more, and we want to hear from you. So how do you land a job at Logos? 1. Be distinct “Objective: self-starter / team pl... [Company][Misc][careers][jobs][marketing][marketing jobs]
Este discurso, o mais complexo que até agora Francisco pronunciou sobre temas sociais, passou um pouco despercebido, apesar de conter uma denúncia precisa das causas do desequilíbrio social. E talvez tenha sido este o motivo da pouca atenção rec... [teologia]
One of my colleagues, Prof. Magnar Kartveit, at The School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger-Norway, is publishing a new book this spring: Rejoice, Dear Zion! Hebrew Construct Phrases with “Daughter” and “Virgin” as Nomen Regens (... [book][old testament]
You can find it here. If you do not get this set, you are going to suffer from a mental, emotional, spiritual, and devotional deficit of the likes you’ve never seen. I have several of the hardcopies and they are absolutely essential if you want to b... [Logos Bible Software]
I have been saying in my posts on the violence of God that God inspired the biblical writers to say that He told them to do the violent things they did, even though He did not. The reason God did this was to take their sin upon Himself. Just as Jesus beca... [When God Pled Guilty]
Yesterday, as the devastating tornado ripped a path of destruction through Moore, Oklahoma, I watched the storm play out through the Facebook status updates of a friend who lived in the area. This friend is a Christian, and her response is similar to tha... [Moore Oklahoma tornado][j. m. green]
There is some discussion going on about Pope Francis' encounter with a young man, captured in the video below. Articles on this are appearing everywhere from the Associated Press and ABC News to the Huffington Post and Salon. Everyone, it seems, is ta...
Thanks to Tom Thatcher for letting me know about this conference, and to Jim West for announcing it in his blog too, and for this Scribd version of the notice, which I am borrowing here: John, Jesus and History Conference (November 20-22 2013)
In my paper for my Intro to New Testament class, I raised the follow: Though prominently the disagreements between Paul and the so-called Jerusalem Pillars; what is noteworthy is that Paul seems to have, as well as earn, authority despite the fact that h... [Belief][Life][Minimalism][Paul][scholarship]
After about three years of waiting, I received today the newly-published Vol. 1 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible (eds. James Carleton Paget & Joachim Schaper) in which appears the discussion of “Writing and Book Production in the Hellen... [Uncategorized][Important publications]
Construct a well-rounded theology with this robust collection of academic resources. The 15-volume Baker Academic Theological Studies Collection includes everything from The Doctrine of God to Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross. The list of contribu... [Products][baker theological studies][discount][Pre-Pub][sale][theology]
Pete Enns probes an issue many Bible readers sense, and some answers to the retributive violence of God in the Old Testament simply won’t do. Of course, for both the Old and New Testaments, there are other examples we could look at. But the point re... [Uncategorized]
Via the Huff Po: Call it a midlife epiphany. After decades of pursuing money, titles and ever more stuff, baby boomers are coming to a big realization: Success and security just aren’t enough anymore. They want something more fulfilling out of life,... [church][Christianity][Culture][faith][Ministry][news][Priesthood]
Some people ask if there is any difference between nutrients in 'chemical' or 'organic' form, but that is really asking the wrong question. We should actually be asking how stable and soluble the nutrients are.—How to Grow Winter Vegetables, page 36... [theology][Idle Musings][food]
The concept of the deification of the dead as a universal religious phenomenon belongs to the evolutionist paradigm of 19th-century scholarship. Because the Hebrew Bible contains almost no evidence that family (or royal) ancestors were worshiped, it seems... [theology][Idle Musings][Books]
From Oxford: Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch will present “Henry VIII’s Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell” this Friday, 24 May, at 9.00pm on BBC Two as part of the BBC Tudor Season. More information about the programme can... [Church History]
Carol Gilligan’s book In a Different Voice had a tremendous influence on our understanding of gender and morality, even as some disagree with her theories. This is how one website summarized her findings: In the book, Gilligan outlined her findings ... [Gender][Halakhic Literature][Jewish Law][Legal History][Legal Theory]
Last year’s instructors of Humanities 1 (Art and Music) developed a new format for the class that is loosely organized around Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a text that has inspired a lot of art and music and is also in large part about human creativit... [art][Heidegger][hermeneutics][husserl][syllabi]
The BBC has an interesting piece on how they protect their seven million objects from six million visitors annually. Threats include curious hands, inadvertent bumps, and chewing gum. David Saunders, head of conservation and scientific research at the... [Museums]
Roger Pearse, writer/administrator of his eponymous blog, has written a lengthy review of Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate. These are the papers presented at the 2011 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Read the review... [Secret Mark][York Christian Apocrypha]
The HuffPo is ‘collecting’ ‘prayers’ for Oklahoma, turning an act of concern and compassion into an opportunity to act pious. This is clearly senseless for several reasons, the most important of which are- 1- Prayers are best dir... [pseudo-christianity][pseudo-theology][Twitter Theology That Makes Me Sigh]
Sunday, on which by apostolic tradition the paschal mystery is celebrated, must be observed in the universal Church as the primordial holy day of obligation. . . . On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in th... [Reflections]
Donate to Disaster Relief (SBC). All of the money you give will be used for disaster relief. Unlike the Red Cross, a large percentage isn’t siphoned off donations to pay a CEO’s exorbitant salary. Your money really will help those most i... [Modern Culture][Oklahoma disaster relief]
One of the things I'll miss about this Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship, when it formally ends after this week, is the routine I developed this year of driving to the train station and taking Amtrak into the city, then walking to the hotel where RWB puts... [Rabbis Without Borders][Travel]
I finished Herman Wouk's The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion.At the end of the book, Wouk quotes the sermon of Professor Aaron Jastrow, who was a character in Wouk's book, War and Remembrance. As I read the sermon, it seemed familiar to ... [Bible][family][Television][Life][The Language God Talks][religion][Job]
Huldrych Zwingli published his little 19 page Flugschrift Die erste kurze Antwort über Ecks sieben Schlußreden on 21 May, 1526. Zwingli also addressed it to the Confederation (so that all the Cantons which had embraced Reform would know how Eck shoul... [Church History][Zwingli]
Over the last year or so I have been listening to scripture straight through in large chunks during my commute (20-25 minutes each way depending on traffic). The Bible Gateway App for my phone has a great feature that permits listening to an audio reading... [Bible]
Rien de tel qu’une bonne session intensive d’hébreu biblique pour bien finir l’année ! Durant trois jours, nous étudierons ensemble une série de textes issus de différents livres de la Bible hébraïque. Ce cours s’adresse en priorité aux ... [Cours][Bible hébraïque][hébreu][Unistra]
What could be better than an intensive Biblical Hebrew session to end the academic year? For three days, we will study together a series of texts from various books of the Hebrew Bible. This course has been designed for students preparing the University... [Courses][Hebrew Bible][Hebrew][Unistra]
I’m glad to announce that Ridley Melbourne has launched The Ridley Certificate which is a fully integrated on-line multi-media course designed for interested students, lay people, and church groups to grow in their knowledge of the Bible, Christ... [Uncategorized]
Is this the best that Christians can say? This review is mind-boggling, but somewhat positive. Enjoy. There is way too much ignorance here to bother responding.
John 14.8-17, 25-27; Isaiah 40.1-9.Have you ever found yourself lost for words? Simply unable to find the appropriate syllables to put around the thoughts that exist in your head? A kind of verbal equivalent to ‘writer’s block’ where the words just ...
I feel prompted to post part of Psalm 2 this morning 1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,3 “Let us burst ...
With the election of our new Pope Francis, one can expect there will continue to be a flood of new books about him being published on a monthly basis for the foreseeable future. Unlike Benedict XVI, there was barely anything published by or about hi... [Pope Francis][Book Reviews][Saint Benedict Press]
The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, preached a sermon in Venezuela about seeing the glory of others. In the course of her sermon, she says what I think is the strangest and stupidest thing I have ever heard/... [Uncategorized]
So once you get outside the cathedral, seeing most anything is possible. York is, like Durham, on a good-sized river. In this case the Ouse (pronounced ooooze of course). But likely the first thing you notice when you get off the train is the old city wal... [Uncategorized]
Some — and probably far more than “some” — believe Christian orthodoxy is a simple, clear, uneventful interpretation of Scripture and, in particular, of the apostolic teaching. In other words, apart from some dipsticks all believed... [theology]
