Idle musings of a bookseller

Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Did Paul blow it?

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For instance, Paul gave the Christian position regarding the structure of a Christian society thus: “In it there is no room for Greek and Je...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Reallexikon der Assyriologie links

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I have these links on the abbreviations page , but its handier to have a separate page linking them. RlA abbreviations: https://rla.bad...

A sense of mission? Not so much…

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Many Christians know little or nothing about personal guidance from God. They go from event to event and live a kind of hand-to-mouth spirit...
Monday, March 02, 2026

The greatest danger

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I'm reading Abraham Joshua Heschel's great work, The Prophets . Came across this yesterday and it seems appropriate for our time, wh...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Technological Progress…

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Let us labor under no illusions. There are no easy solutions for problems that are at the same time intensely personal and universal, urgent...
Monday, November 03, 2025

The Nazi myth recycled … as a MAGA myth!

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I read Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth over the weekend. On the whole it's just a rehash of Eliade and Joseph Campbell, b...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The road goes ever on… but this blog won't

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I've been blogging now for twenty years (today is the twentieth anniversary). Some years I've blogged more than others, but I've...
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Monday, October 20, 2025

The social net and the gospel

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I say we cannot preach it [the gospel] honestly, not because people might look at lack of community in our own lives and say, “You aren’t pr...
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I'm a freelance editor/proofreader in Red Wing, MN along the Mississippi River.
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