Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 May 2012 (Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B) Acts 8:26-40  • Psalm 22:25-31  • 1 John 4:7-21  • John 15:1-8 First things first: I apologize for missing…

I realize I’m a dinosaur in all sorts of ways, and my paleophilia runs all the way from a preference for epics over novels (though some novels are undeniably good)…

And in other news, Bart Ehrman discovers that sometimes people write very stupid things on the Internet. In praise of first-year comp (I can’t remember if we’ve posted this before,…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 15 April 2012 (Second Sunday of Easter, Year B) Acts 4:32-35  • Psalm 133  • 1 John 1:1-2:2  • John 20:19-31 Until I studied rhetoric, I was vaguely…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 1 April 2012 (Palm Sunday, Year B) Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29  • Mark 11:1-11 or John 12:12-16 Palm Sunday is, second only to Ash Wednesday, my favorite…

The Vatican’s recent statement on the practice of theology (HT Fred Sanders) David Brooks on the gray tsunami A right-wing account of class struggle in contemporary America In which Pat…

The Christian Humanist Forum will remain open for business.  However, because Michial and I have been getting dozens of spambot application emails every day (the last time I checked the…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 18 March 2012 (Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B) Numbers 21:4-9  • Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22  • Ephesians 2:1-10  • John 3:14-21 I don’t preach from Paul often, perhaps…

Especially when the government dictates that the whole nation must get up an hour earlier every morning!  World War One is over, folks!  Down with Daylight Saving!

Martin Luther Insult Generator Cicero on Presidential Campaigning The Ideal of the Christian Humanist Douglas Groothius on why abortion is still a live issue Fred Sanders on the dramatic roots…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 4 March 2012 (Second Sunday of Lent, Year B) Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16  •  Psalm 22:23-31  •  Romans 4:13-25  •  Mark 8:31-38 or Mark 9:2-9 When plain speech follows chapters of parabolic teaching, a…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 26 February 2012 (First Sunday of Lent, Year B) Genesis 9:8-17  •  Psalm 25:1-10  •  1 Peter 3:18-22  •  Mark 1:9-15 When I do preach this on Sunday, I’m going to…

Slavoj Žižek on some changes in capitalism that Karl Marx did not anticipate Some prognostications on the future of higher education in America: depressing or invigorating? College sports, Derrida, and Homer’s…

Good question.  As some of you (my Facebook contacts, certainly) know, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation yesterday afternoon, bringing a LONG grad student career to an end.  (To be…