Dr. James Cone is delivering our Convocation address at G-ETS this morning at 11:00 CT, and there will also be a panel discussion at 3:00 CT. His address is titled, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Cross and the Lynching Tree in the Black Experience.” The link for the live webcasts is www.garrett.edu/convocation. Viewers [...]
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Akma and Mark (links are to their home pages) shared a Facebook link to the Geek Muse: 100 Reasons to Study Theology and Religion: A Call for Comments. With religion and theology departments coming under the knife, Geek Muse calls for your arguments: how do these programs benefit our society? What good are they? Give [...]
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Today, we welcome Dr. Nancy Ramsay (Brite Divinity School) and Dr. Frank Yamada (McCormick Theological Seminary) to host “a faculty workshop on understanding power dimensions in culturally diverse classrooms.” Should the format afford me opportunity, I’ll try to live blog here from time to time during the day. [I should have added that the event [...]
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Summary: Answer: According to Crossley, this dread feeling could potentially unite biblical scholars of all competing stripes.
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Summary: Bruce Waltke made to resign from faculty position for acknowledging fact of evolution. President of seminary celebrates diversity of acceptable views overstepped by Waltke.
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Summary: The community of bloggers in academic biblical studies is overwhelmingly male compared to the non-blogging discipline. Question isn’t whether this is sign of illness, but rather how to address the plain fact of ill health.
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Summary: God doesn’t punish Bible woo directly, but apparently finds ways to keep up the spirits of the debunkers.
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