Thursday, July 28, 2022

Over-exercising

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This post talks about overexertion and the dangers of conflating our cultural workaholism w/athletic improvement as opposed to athletics ju...

About plagiarism, and more…

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Via Publishers Weekly , some very good thoughts that start w/plagiarism, but go into the whole process of writing and publishing. Mainly rel...
Friday, July 22, 2022

But how to fix it?

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The new Anxious Bench editor/contributor Malcolm Foley has a very good post up today: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2022/07/but...
Monday, July 18, 2022

A warning

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Editing an article for a Classics journal (to appear later this year), and ran across this statement, which I think could also be expanded t...
Saturday, July 09, 2022

Divine Christology

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Richard Bauckham, arguing against a late Christology that supposes that a Christology which attributed true divinity to Jesus could not hav...

Hymn for today

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1 *All creatures worship God most high, lift up your voice in earth and sky, alleluia, alleluia! Thou burning sun with golden beam, thou...
Friday, July 08, 2022

The Internet Archive vs. the American Association of Publishers

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This is a case to watch. The AAP says that the IA controlled digital lending (CDL) program is a violation of copyright. IA disagrees. This o...
Monday, July 04, 2022

Thought for the day—on education

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Great post on what's going on in the perennial "education wars" on the Curmudgucation blog. The penultimate paragraph is a go...
Sunday, July 03, 2022

Getting rid of resentment

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I just ran across this again as I was looking through some things. It seems appropriate for the times. It's by E. Stanley Jones; I think...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

How much time are you willing to give?

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From the Curmudgucation blog : I see this thread from time to time, this insistence on denying that students are bad at something. "...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

So, what's the answer?

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Maybe you want to know the question first? What's the best way out of the current high degree of wealth inequality? The Atlantic takes ...
Friday, June 17, 2022

Strawberries!

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OK, one strawberry, but it is the promise of more to come. I picked our first strawberry of the season yesterday, and it reminded me of why ...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

About those celebrity bookshelves

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Via Publishers Weekly, an article on books by the yard, from The Millions : "Is It So Wrong to Accessorize with Books?" I had re...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Train up a conscience…

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OK, an intentional misquote of the proverb. Not sure where I ran across this link, so if you’ve seen it, apologies, but it is well-worth ...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Plant a garden!

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This excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass stands on its own and is too good not to post: People often ask me what one thing I would recommen...
Monday, June 06, 2022

What's happening here?

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I've been silent here for a few days, and it's likely to continue. Right now I'm in the process of reading Braiding Sweetgrass ,...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

Counter-factual

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Suppose Abraham had not been silent. Suppose he had been so sure of the mercy of God that he could wrestle with God, arguing back, challengi...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

A make-up exam

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Yet Abraham finally did come to understand that God didn’t want him to sacrifice his son. If we consider his sacrificing the ram as analogous ...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Did he pass?

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Yet the fact that he did eventually look around could be taken as a point in his favor. Perhaps Abraham is to be commended not simply for lo...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Speak up!

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If I were to construct a hierarchy of possible responses that Abraham might have made to God’s request to sacrifice his son, I would put prot...