Revised Common Lectionary Page for 4 December 2011 (Second Sunday of Advent, Year B) Isaiah 40:1-11  •  Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13  •  2 Peter 3:8-15a   •  Mark 1:1-8 Over the years, since I discovered in 1996 that…

General Introduction – “Technical difficulties” – What’s on the blog? – David, half-asleep – Women crawl out of the woodwork Biblical Creation – Stewardship – Christ as agent of creation…

Revised Common Lectionary Readings for 27 November 2011 (First Sunday of Advent, Year B) Isaiah 64:1-9  • Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19  • 1 Corinthians 1:3-9  • Mark 13:24-37 The new Church year is upon…

Epilepsy Awareness at Thanksgiving Chris Maxwell, Emmanuel College’s campus minister, has asked me to pass this link along to our readers.  Chris has been a good friend to me in…

Conservative intellectuals and why they’re so hard to find these days 13 Reasons why Rachel Held Evans is a lousy feminist

Why Read Moby-Dick? By Nathaniel Philbrick. 144 pp. Viking Adult. $25. If such a thing as the Great American Novel exists, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is almost certainly the finest example…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 20 November 2011 (23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 and Psalm 100  • Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 and Psalm 95:1-7a  • Ephesians 1:15-23  • Matthew 25:31-46…

Chris Gehrz talks some sense about the Joe Paterno controversy. The ongoing debate over what constitutes good composition instruction Brian McLaren throws churches under the bus (again) Questioning the category…

General Introduction – And you know what that means! – Backlog of emails – A female listener! – Toward a Christian Conception of Satire – A long digression about Steve…

There won’t likely be a Lectionary post tomorrow, as I’m reading a paper and participating in a roundtable on Writing Across the Curriculum at the annuel SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern…

We’re now up to 16 registered members over at The Christian Humanist Forum.  That’s the good news. We’ve also had about 20 spambots try to join.  That’s the bad news.…

JAC (a journal of rhetoric, culture, and politics) goes online Some sensible suggestions for revising seminary education In honor of Reformation Day, 15 Theses for the Charismatic movement Socratic teaching,…

I don’t know why I was thinking about this most amusing of meters this morning, but it occurs to me that our good readers might help me add to the…

General Introduction – Welcome to November, from October – Michial’s one-man war on portmanteaux – Buy our mugs! (I mean energy, not internet—we record early in the morning) – Listener…