Inside Higher Ed today reports on a study that while many students drop in their attendance to religious services, very few actually say that religion is less important to them or disassociate with their religion.
The more you pursue a higher education, the more likely you are to abandon your faith — at least that’s what [...]
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14 Jun 07
13 Jun 07
Chris Spinks, with whom I share Fuller, our Mennonite church, and biblioblogging, is moving on to Eugene, OR, and the next stage in his life as an editor with Wipf & Stock. Here is the press release from Wipf & Stock:
Chris Spinks and his wife Gail move to the Pacific Northwest in June where Chris [...]
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Posted in news, publishing
12 Jun 07
Finally, some good press! I’ve blogged a couple times about the bad (and misrepresenting) press that Messiah College has gotten in the wake of the firings under the Attorney General, since Monica Goodling is an alumna of the school (as well as Regent University) [see my posts here and here]. It is an opinion piece [...]
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8 Jun 07
Disturbing news from Inside Higher Ed about a prof at Texas Christian University:
Charles F. Bond Jr., 53, was arrested at his home on Saturday by Fort Worth Police after officers received a warrant by TCU Police detailing charges against the professor. A statement from the university says that Bond “exhibited extremely inappropriate conduct and made [...]
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Posted in education, news
5 Jun 07
Were it not for this man, my Fuller Seminary experience would be vastly different. I do not even want to imagine it. Thus far, I have learned from Dr. Scholer not only information and theories about the New Testament, early Christianity, and women’s roles in all of the above, but I have also gleaned the [...]
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2 Jun 07
This story gives new meaning to “visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children” (Ex 34:7)
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29 May 07
I noticed that someone reached my blog by searching for “daily show messiah college.” I was away this weekend, so I hadn’t watched the latest from Stewart’s Daily Show online. When I looked it up, I found that it was in relation to Monica Goodling, who is unfortunately bringing Messiah’s name into the news for [...]
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15 May 07
For those who haven’t heard the news, and I’m sure within a short period of time everybody who reads this will have heard, Jerry Falwell died today at 73. With such a controversial public figure, I can’t even begin to imagine the great variety of reflections there will be with his passing. Someone from my [...]
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7 May 07
Big news from Hebrew University. First Jesus now Herod the Great
Update (05/08/07): There are a lot of posts coming out about Herod’s tomb, and I don’t plan on reflecting on it in depth on this blog, but I would like to highlight Kevin Wilson’s post about its significance, especially for those who are [...]
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4 May 07
This Christian Science Monitor article is interesting food for thought. I don’t think that the US News rankings would be my own personal ranking system, but on the other hand, there is certainly a “top tier” of schools. For many of the schools in the top tier, I’m not sure it matters whether you go [...]
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Posted in education, news, ranking
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Elsewhere . . .- Some Thoughts On Being A DSS/Second Temple Scholar agathos
- Mellon Seminar Reflection 1: What are T/traditions? April DeConick
- Quote of the Day (Bob Cargill) James F. McGrath
- Fall 2010 Term at Duke Stephen C. Carlson
- NT Blog Seven Years Old Today! Mark Goodacre
- Teaching the Bible e-pub latest Mark Goodacre
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- First blind PhD graduate in biblical languages? paleojudaica@talktalk.net (Jim Davila)
- CONF: Second Qumran Institute Symposium rogueclassicist
- Received: Jefford’s Reading the Apostolic Fathers: An Introduction (author unknown)
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