Several friends have aske me where I get news these days. They just wanted a couple of suggestions. Of course I couldn’t just do that. I wrote something longer. But then I went back and made a short cersion. So there’s the short version, then the long version. This is all off the cuff. SHORTContinue reading “How to stay informed”
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Nakba as source of theological insight?
Will the Nabka now force
My life on bicycles
About my bicycles . . .
Hiatus
My posts have been sparse lately. Work has been consuming, and sometimes one takes a break.
On observing July 4 as an American Christian
When the Fourth of July falls on a Sunday, Christians need to be careful about how they relate patriotism and worship.
In Memoriam: Richard N. Longenecker, 1930–2021 (EerdWord)
Remembering Eerdmans author Richard Longenecker.
The American Abyss, by Timothy Snyder
The American republic is in serious danger. That danger will not dissolve when Joe Biden is inaugurated as president. That danger will not dissolve if Donald Trump is sent to prison or has a heart attack and dies tomorrow. What follows here is an article published in The New York Times Magazine on January 9.Continue reading “The American Abyss, by Timothy Snyder”
ReMEMbering Psalm 119:97–104
Oh, how I love your law!It is my meditation all day long.Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,for it is always with me.I have more understanding than all my teachers,for your decrees are my meditation.I understand more than the aged,for I keep your precepts.I hold back my feet from every evil way,in order toContinue reading “ReMEMbering Psalm 119:97–104”
Are you calling Trump a fascist?
Jason Stanley, a Yale University philosophy professor, published How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them in 2018. The paperback was released this May with a new preface summing up developments since 2018. In short: the fascist talk in the US and elsewhere is being concretized in fascist policies, and democratic institutions are beingContinue reading “Are you calling Trump a fascist?”
Ngram Viewer and the human condition
Whoa, the Google Ngram Viewer databases have been updated! They now incorporate usages right up through 2019. When did that happen? As I recall, the English-language database recently stopped somewhere in the aughts. Or maybe the last update was through 2015. The previous database segment for English appears to be 2012–2015. Never used the NgramContinue reading “Ngram Viewer and the human condition”
Verba Sparsa 