Off to SAMLA
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…
Forum Update
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.…
Link You Like a Hurricane
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,…
A Bit on Fourteeners
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…
Like Rolling Waters: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 6 November 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 November 2011 (21st Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25 and Psalm 78:1-7 • Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-16 or Amos 5:18-24 andWisdom of Solomon 6:17-20 or Psalm 70 • 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 • Matthew 25:1-13 I…
Christian Humanist Forum Up and Running
I’m going to be modifying the boards in the course of the next few weeks, but I figured I’d provide a link to the new forums and invite folks to…
Project Link-Way
Chris Gehrz asks when Micah 6:8 became the rallying call for activist Christianity Saint Benedict, Occupy Wall Street, and… Saint Benedict and WHAT? The American organizations which won’t abide U.S.…
My Kind of Theologian: A Review of Earthen Vessels by Matthew Lee Anderson
Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith by Matthew Lee Anderson 231 pp. $14.99. Bethany House. The preface to Matthew Anderson’s book is subtitled, “In Which I Clear…
The Seat of Moses: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 30 October 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 30 October 2011 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Joshua 3:7-17 and Psalm 107:1-7, 33-37 • Micah 3:5-12 and Psalm 43 • 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 • Matthew 23:1-12…
First as Tragedy, then as a Link
The Future of Seminary Education: An Online Symposium Ed Cyzewski: Don’t go to church to get fed. Some implications of taking over abandoned malls for church use Stanley Fish: Don’t…
His Eye Was not Dim: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 23 October 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 23 October 2011 (19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Deuteronomy 34:1-12 and Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17 • Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 and Psalm 1 • 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 • Matthew 22:34-46 Perhaps teaching Dostoevsky…
Godzilla vs. Link-ra
Xenophon and Aristophanes: the other pictures of Socrates Fashion as the world where men are peripheral Why 11 September anniversaries could not be anything but political A dozen more reasons…
Nobody Expects the Christ: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 16 October 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 16 October 2011 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 33:12-23 and Psalm 99 • Isaiah 45:1-7 and Psalm 96:1-9, (10-13) • 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 • Matthew 22:15-22 To say that the Old Testament…
The Endings of Mark
Here’s a question for our readers: in your experiences in congregational and college settings, how have your teachers handled the variant endings of the book of Mark? (Or were you…
Cry Havoc and Let Link the Dogs of War
Ed Cyzewski offers a few thoughts on men’s ministries for… you know… those sorts of guys Don Miller offers some brief but good advice to writers online and otherwise Alan…