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So, that's what kids are calling it these days.

To follow up on what not to name a church centre (from Dr. Jim) . . . how about what not to name a Christian blog? On a sidebar, the author offers one definition of a glory hole (a furnace used to make glass), but is perhaps unaware of another meaning. If you too are [...]

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Know Anyone Interested in Breastfeeding?

If I’m linking to women’s blogs, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my own wife’s new blog, The Milk Mama, which is dedicated to breastfeeding, among other things. Only one week old, she’s already published some interesting thoughts and is generating some decent traffic. But she’d love to find lots more dialogue partners and [...]

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A Woman Who Blogs About Exegesis and Hermeneutics?!

You don’t say. Rachel Marszalek stopped by my blog today, looking at an older post I did on Junia, to which she linked on her own blog. Rachel describes herself as an Anglican Ordinand and uses the following labels for herself: “Christian, Anglican, Evangelical, conservative (small C), Charismatic (big C), Open, Post-modern.” Have a look, [...]

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A New, Worthy Blog!

Kevin Scull, my esteemed UCLA colleague, a fellow Bartchy advisee, has officially joined the blogging ranks. He tried a brief hand at it while Brandon Wason was still in the game, as a co-blogger over at Novum Testamentum. Kevin is a rare bird. He’s good at pretty much everything he does. He is a modern [...]

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Top 10 List: Scholars I Wish Had Blogs

Nick had a good idea for a list, so I’m going to offer my list of scholars (dead* & alive) that I wish had blogs:

Scott Bartchy [of course]
John Howard Yoder*
Dynamic Dual Blog: Adela Yarbro Collins & John J. Collins
Thomas Yoder Neufeld [I just had lunch with him today, so I might be biased, but I [...]

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Do students know too much about their profs?

That is, from online sources like blogs, RateMyProfessors.com, and Facebook? Here’s an article of interest in the NY Times: “The Professor as Open Book” by Stephanie Rosenbloom. Here’s the beginning bit:
It is not necessary for a student studying multivariable calculus, medieval literature or Roman archaeology to know that the professor behind the podium shoots pool, [...]

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