I was happy to see that my favorite place to study was in today’s LA Times in an article that also featured my friend Noel. Fuller’s old library was kind of dingy, with an elevator that seemed as if it belonged in a haunted mansion. I actually feared for my life taking that elevator. Their [...]
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25 May 09
28 Apr 09
In his lecture today, Prof. Bartchy referenced an intriguing article in the NY Times about current study of the Qur’an. The Qur’an is considered by Muslims to be the very words of God, spoken through the prophet (peace be upon him) who spoke the words of God for his companions to transcribe verbatim. For Muslims, [...]
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Posted in Islam, Qur'an, conferences, news, pedagogy, quotes
12 Feb 09
Two hundred years ago, on this day, Charles Darwin was born. His work (and reactions to it) has led to some of the most frustrating conversations I have ever had, among other things. NPR had an interersting story this morning about Darwin’s relationship with his wife and her influence on him in his struggle with [...]
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Posted in Darwin, news, quotes
17 Oct 08
After a little while of defending the “win-win” integrity of providing financial incentives for their freshmen to retake the SAT, Baylor University has dropped the program:
After several days in which educators and admissions experts nationally lambasted its plan to pay accepted applicants to raise their SAT scores (and presumably the institution’s ranking in U.S. News [...]
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Posted in SAT, baylor, news, standardized tests, university rankings
14 Oct 08
Well, this is new. It strikes me as somewhat unethical and probably not the sort of thing a Christian university should be doing:
Baylor University in Waco, Tex., which has a goal of rising to the first tier of national college rankings, last June offered its admitted freshmen a $300 campus bookstore credit to retake the [...]
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Posted in SAT, baylor, news, standardized tests, university rankings
31 Jul 08
This Monica Goodling fiasco just won’t stay buried, I guess. Messiah College has once again had its reputation dragged through the mud (find more in this old post). The Daily Show has taken an even lower blow in its mention of Messiah College. In a “stroll down memory lane” on the show, Jon Stewart covered [...]
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Posted in daily show, jon stewart, messiah college, monica goodling, news
28 Dec 07
I just came across the article, “Selling the Good Book by its cover,” by Stephanie Simon at the LA Times. It is an interesting look at something I’m always fascinated by when I go to the bookstore: what do the Bibles look like here? Here are some excerpts from the article, which features the efforts [...]
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Posted in marketing, news, pop culture, study bibles, zondervan
20 Dec 07
Okay, so when I was a fundamentalist high school student, sure, I felt like I was an oppressed minority. This is the nature of fundamentalism, you think that your group (no matter how big) is a small minority facing attacks from all sides. So, all comments, especially from authority figures, are subject to this filter [...]
19 Dec 07
Like Michael Westmoreland-White and Jim West, I am skeptical of thinking a “theology degree” could qualify a person for presidency of the United States. I do see some potential benefits, depending on one’s training in that degree. For example, if a person focused on the relationship between theology and culture in American society or perhaps [...]
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Posted in news, politics, quotes, seminary
24 Jun 07
I try not to get too political on this blog, but this is just too good to resist. Besides, it lends itself to an interesting exercise of interpreting the words of the powerful.
In vetoing the recent bill on stem-cell research, Bush made the following comments:
America is also a nation founded on the principle that all [...]
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Elsewhere . . .- CONF: Second Qumran Institute Symposium rogueclassicist
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- Ancient Greek and Hebrew Fonts agathos
- The Theology of the Declaration of Independence Matt
- Independence Day and Messianic Patriotism Joel Willitts
- An Update of Sorts Michael
- On how to find the meaning of a Greek word noreply@blogger.com (Suzanne McCarthy)
- Another Gladiator Grave Claim — This Time Female? rogueclassicist
- "Mystery" in the DSS and its Perso-Babylonian background paleojudaica@talktalk.net (Jim Davila)
- Biblical illiteracy – no really! clayboy
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