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22 Dec 09

End of the Fall Quarter

Well, I survived another challenging quarter. This was my first one as a Teaching Assistant at UCLA and it took some getting used to balancing teaching responsibilities, my own research, and family life. Teaching took the bulk of my time this quarter. Though I know this is a life long struggle for academics, I will [...]

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31 Aug 09

Mercy of Jesus = Violence of Rome?

Here’s the provocative concluding statement for Shelly Matthews’ paper, “Clemency as Cruelty: Forgiveness and Force in the Dying Prayers of Jesus and Stephen“:
But I would suggest that in the telling of Luke-Acts, the ethical teachings of early Christians share considerable space with the values of the Pax Romana – inscribing violence as peace, conquest as [...]

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