Alan Streett, editor of the Criswell Theological Review sent me a note, which I quote here. The Spring 2010 Criswell Theological Review (CTR) will focus on the mind-body connection. Besides articles by Joel Green and other scholars, we will include the results of the first-ever survey of Christian attitudes toward hypnosis, which we have commissioned. [...]
Ruby and I have been watching the new Holiday Springs and Sprockets being set up. (and this is also a test of the WordPress app for iPhone which let’s me post when I am out and about–like next week at SBL)
National Geographic has some incredible photos of sperm whales eating a giant squid and then photos of the five adult whales apparently teaching a young calf how to dive and hunt. Here is just one of the 5 photos posted. Read the brief articles that accompany the slide show.
Another set of amazing insect macro-photography. Take a look at the whole set here.
… it is the last week of October and you are still harvesting ripe tomatoes from the vine.
Moliere‘s quote (from “The Miser”): “One should eat to live, not live to eat” is often paraphrased and used to motivate dieters or over-consumers. I’m going to take it in another direction today. We need to eat to live. Truly live. Eating involves not only nutrition and sustenance, but also community and beauty. To truly [...]
More amazing photos (but alas, not from any of my cameras). Can you guess what this is? HINT: it’s not some kind of coffee bean or seed. I found it at Alex Wild’s blog this week. Keep reading for some more hints and photos.
I just found a post that J. Randall Short put up in June. He wrote about the Birmingham Boys Choir performing in Japan. He highlights one of the pieces they sang, which is based on the poem “Youth” by Samuel Ullman. I had never read this poem before. Below are the first and last stanza. [...]
Since NPR did not think it was too early to start highlighting the Christmas retail shopping season, I figured it would not be too early to pass on this holiday-must-have for the upcoming Hanukkah/Christmas season.
Wow. Look at these images from the Nikon International Small World Competition. These images are all photomicrographs.
We lived on Moloka’i, Hawai’i, for a year. While there, the school where we taught closed for only two events: bees which had nested in and overcome a wall of the school, and a tsunami warning. It is hard to articulate just how scary it is to wait for a potential tsunami to arrive. It [...]
I went to get a cup of coffee and got distracted from productive work for the next half hour because just 2 inches from our kitchen window a large spider was eating a meal. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this from the “underside” of a spider. Or that close. Oh for a DSLR with [...]
In August, Rob Kashow highlighted an important redactional and source critical analysis. I want to point to another worthy contribution. Mark Shea, who blogs at Catholic and Enjoying It, wrote a tremendous source critical article on an ancient text that some of you might be interested in (some of you, who keep up with the [...]
A few weeks ago we took a hike to Bobbitt Hole on the Eno River (Durham, NC) and then enjoyed a swim at the water hole (which included sliding down a small water chute onto a snake). I also took the time to practice my hobby of balancing rocks. The results of my efforts were [...]
Google celebrated the 57th anniversary of the first bar code patent with a Google Doodle of their name in bar code. Want one of your own? Try this barcode generator. by Barcodes Inc Be patient, they are a little swamped today! Here’s mine:
