The Bible in Church and Academy
Posted in Culture on Sep 16th, 2009
I don’t know why, but I have always been fascinated with flappers. This site (via Boing Boing) tells us all about these fascinating women, with links to several other informative sites.
Here is my favorite literary flapper, the incomparable Lady Caroline Dester from Enchanted April:
Edit: Here is a video of the best movie flappers of [...]
Posted in Culture, Language, Technology on Aug 5th, 2009
It is imperative that Apple stay in the platform business and stay out of the content business. When they opened the iTunes store a few years ago, they became a music retailer like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart. Like the first two of those (and unlike the third), they did not attempt to moderate or [...]
Posted in Academia, Culture, Open Access Scholarship, Technology on Jul 19th, 2009
If you haven’t explored iTunesU, you’re missing out. There is a ton of great academic content on there, including course material and recordings of public lectures.
If people had access to a comprehensive collection of well-produced, engaging, and accurate teaching about the Bible, there would be a lot less need for this debate. My experience has [...]
A few days ago, Fail Blog posted a screenshot of the Guinness World Records webpage for the “most people killed in a terrorist act” record. First off, it’s ridiculous that 9/11 is featured on a site along with people who can stuff peanuts into their nose and what-not. The FAIL part, however, was that the [...]
I enjoy watching religious television because it is so darn entertaining. Whether it’s the electric miracles of faith healers or the smooth platitudes of Joel Osteen, there is usually something on to help me forget that I’m supposed to be working.
After a few minutes, however, I remember that not everyone watches this stuff for its [...]
Posted in Academia, Culture, Open Access Scholarship on May 19th, 2009
This is from Gideon Burton’s inspiring post about being a public intellectual rather than a private scholar:
I don’t want to be complicit in sustaining a knowledge economy that rewards its participants when they invest in burying and restricting knowledge. This is why Open Access is more than a new model for scholarly publishing, it is [...]
Posted in Books, Culture, Open Access Scholarship on Apr 20th, 2009
When it comes to the promise of e-books and electronic publishing, Steven Johnson ‘gets it.’ In an insightful article today for the Wall Street Journal, Johnson ponders “how the e-book will change the way we read.” Journalists and scholars often talk about e-books as if the issue were simply one of distribution and [...]
Via Boing Boing today I learned of a lecture by eminent Duke University law professor James Boyle at the RSA in London titled “The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind.” Audio is available here and you can find a video of the lecture on the RSA site for streaming or download.
Or, watch [...]
Posted in Academia, Culture, Open Access Scholarship on Mar 18th, 2009
I have been reading articles on the if:book blog (http://futureoftebook.org/blog) as well as a few important articles from three years ago on the way forward in electronic publishing. [The literature and media folks have been ahead of the curve on this and, as usual, biblical studies has a ways to go to catch up.]
In her [...]
I have been selected as one of the participants in a year-long faculty seminar titled “Simpler Living, Radical Change: Theology, Ethics, and Sustainability,” which will be conducted starting in August by Furman’s Lilly Center for Theological Exploration of Vocation. Here is part of the description of the seminar:
Christian theologian Sallie McFague states that “one of [...]
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