Revelation of the Magi: The Lost Tale of the Wise Men’s Journey to Bethlehem Translated by Brent Landau 157pp.  HarperOne.  $22.99 When I discovered Midrash as an undergraduate Bible minor,…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 19 December 2010 (Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A) Isaiah 7:10-16 • Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 • Romans 1:1-7 • Matthew 1:18-25 I’m sure somebody has…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 12 December 2010 (Third Sunday of Advent, Year A) Isaiah 35:1-10 • Psalm 146:5-10 or Luke 1:46b-55 • James 5:7-10 • Matthew 11:2-11 Because I…

Chris Heard makes a useful distinction between media of academic publication and the review process. O’Nora O’Neill reflects upon the fiftieth anniversary of C.P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures.” Roger Olson…

In the spring semester of 2006, I overheard a conversation going on in the hallway between two of my graduate student colleagues at the University of Georgia. The funny thing…

  Revised Common Lectionary Page for 5 December 2010 (Second Sunday of Advent, Year A) Isaiah 11:1-10 • Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 • Romans 15:4-13 • Matthew 3:1-12 There was a…

I’ve enjoyed this semester, not least because, for the first time since 2004, I’ve been called on to teach a general survey of literature, in this case Emmanuel College’s English…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 28 November 2010 (First Sunday of Advent, Year A) Isaiah 2:1-5 • Psalm 122 • Romans 13:11-14 • Matthew 24:36-44 I’ve read in a number…

A couple stories have been making the Internet rounds of late, making college teachers everywhere shake our heads (after all, I are one) and drawing forth the usual commonplaces about…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 November 2010 (26th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Luke 1:68-79 • Jeremiah 23:1-6 and Psalm 46 • Colossians 1:11-20 • Luke…

And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament to signal the coming of day and the passing of night, and let their courses be set until the end…

Teka Childress interviews four writers on distributionism as a follow-up to last week’s introduction. Christ the Center talks politics with civility and intelligence. CCEL offers a selection of historic Christian…

In last week’s episode (number 31) of the podcast, one of our discussions related to doctrine and dogma had to do with the category of heresy, one that Michial and…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 1 November 2010 (All Saints’ Day, Year C) Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 and Psalm 149 •Ephesians 1:11-23 •Luke 6:20-31 I know that usually the weekly lectionary post…

Israeli chess grandmaster Alik Gershon sets a world record by  beating 458 of 523 opponents simultaneously. Jenny Truax introduces distributism, an alternative to capitalism and socialism and communism. John Stackhouse…