Does anyone know if there’s any sort of bibliobloggers’ get together at the International SBL meeting that’s coming up in Rome? I have a vague recollection that there was talk of this at some point. I’d be up for it if there is something happening – so long as everyone pretends they attended my paper & found it rivetting…
Where did my blogroll go??? And how do I get it back???
I’ve pretty much said it all in the title actually – any suggestions?
It’s snowing in Nottingham!!
UPDATE BELOW
Here is the type of thing that excites a boy from Perth, Western Australia (where it is currently about 40 degrees Celsius = 104 Farenheit):
UPDATE: And this is what gets me REALLY excited!!!!… (home and uni)
Paul and Badiou
Mike mentions a coming conference in Glasgow on Paul, Political Fidelity and the Philosophy of Alain Badiou… it looks interesting: Speakers include Alain Badiou, John Barclay, and others…
Hmm… to go or not to go? Maybe I should get in touch with my Scottish heritage…
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The recent shambles in the Gaza strip reminded me of two pictures that I took from the Palestinian side of the “Berlin wall” that Israel has constructed to divide off Palestinian territory:
“Give them justice; they will reward you with peace”
“I am not a terrorist”
Unconscious Preferences
You have completed the Judaism – Other Religions IAT.
Your Result
Your data suggest a slight automatic preference for Judaism compared to Other Religions.
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Anti-Semitism is widely believed to have declined in the last century, but nevertheless still exists, and may now exist more in implicit than overt form. This test uses symbols associated with Judaism, and contrasts them with combined symbols of several other religions. This design was intended to create a more general test than one that contrasted Judaic symbols with those of just a single other religion.
This test comes from a controversial series of online tests run by the University of Harvard: You can (allegedly) see whether you have unconscious preferences in terms of race, sexuality, religion, weight, gender, etc etc etc… Have a go if you dare!
Singing Psalms
I have been tagged with a meme, for which the instructions are:
In an effort to keep it simple, short, and easy to follow, I’d like to challenge you to quote one verse (not one chapter). And then say what the Lord has been teaching you in one sentence (not one paragraph). Then tag 5 peeps (you know the drill).
Before I get to my verse, I want to present a challenge of my own – to those who are involved with planning church services: Help your congregation to grow into its identity as the people of Jesus Christ by getting them to say/sing Psalms together. I think there is real value here: As we say, or preferably sing, certain psalms, we are corporately entering into the experience of the Anointed One, engaging with his alienation and persecution, sharing his hope for vindication, learning his dependence on God, voicing his joy and praise of God the Father…
Growing up, I was scared of praying certain psalms, because they just didn’t sound like things I could genuinely pray: “if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me” etc… But as Christians, we need to pray these Psalms, conscious that being Christian means being in Christ. That’s why everything we pray, we pray “in Jesus’ name”. So as we who are in Christ sing these sorts of Psalms, we are both reminding ourselves of who he is, and reminding ourselves of that to which we are called to conform.
Anyway, with that background, my choice is Psalm 17, verse 8:
Guard me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Sound enticing? Sing it with the people of God.
And that’s the way I’d like to pass on this meme: I tag everyone involved in planning/leading church services: Get the people to sing/say a psalm together, and let us know how it goes…
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