Pray for Indonesia

More than 529 people are known to have died in the recent earthquake but that number could rise to more than 1,000, according to the BBC.  It’s a dreadful tragedy and the people concerned need loads of help.

If Its Fundamentalist Theology Doesn’t Attract You…

Maybe Liberty University’s year round ski hill will.
…weather is no longer an obstacle in steamy Lynchburg, Virginia, where the administration at Liberty University, the conservative evangelical college founded in a valley below the Blue Ridge Mountains by Rev. Jerry Falwell, have built a year-round, snow-less ski hill.
Yes, that’s a proper use of money (paid for [...]

My Dream Job

Via Jack Sasson-
An der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen ist zum 01.04.2011, die Professur (W3) für Altes Testament wieder zu besetzen. Die Stelleninhaberin, bzw. der Stelleninhaber hat das Fach in seiner ganzen Breite in Forschung und Lehre zu vertreten. Schwerpunktbildungen sind erwünscht. Darüber hinaus besteht die Verpflichtung, am Studiengang „Diplomgewerbelehrer/in bzw. Diplomhandelslehrer/in mit Wahlpflichtfach [...]

If You’re Planning on Going to Greece…

You need to read this.  And you’d best behave yourself or you might be set aflame too!  And in fact Chris Tilling is heading to a vacation of Corfu in the near future.  So he had better mind his p’s and q’s.

Pictures of the ‘Aramaic’ Inscription From Mount Zion

Joseph Lauer has sent along this bit of news:
In this article, Dr. Shimon Gibson and Dr. Tabor, directors of the excavations, note that there are questions as to whether the inscription is in Aramaic. A number of comments follow at the article’s site, including one from Dr. Tabor, who wrote, “This is not a [...]

Addicted

Since I got highspeed internet access a while back I’ve come to love Google Earth.  In fact, I might even be addicted to it.  It’s a fantastic little tool and more fun than just about anything else you can download.  I use it to get a look at places I’ve been, am going to, and [...]