Category: Explaining Myself
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Help Wanted: Biblical Studies
Please send posts, because I rashly agreed to host the Biblical Studies Carnival for January …
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I love WordPress
Not a lie. But sometimes stuff happens, and it takes time to figure it out. For some unknown reason all my images have started showing up at giant dinosaur size in the reader, no matter what I do. So the reader is making me look demented. (Revelation, perhaps.) But my real question (for the two…
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Theme Change Trials and Tribulations
I changed my blog theme. And then I changed my blog theme again. I think I’m finally “OK” with the results. Have I learned anything as a result? Maybe. But I must admit, I felt fairly ridiculous by the end of this whole process. At least, I hope it’s the end. For a long time.…
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Delayed but Grateful
Notes on Ezra will post soonish, I hope, now that I am through being examined by the Presbytery of Ohio Valley and approved for ordination, to a new validated ministry that will involve pulpit supply, sacraments, and governance (i.e., moderating session meetings). This takes place on what I have learned is the feast day of…
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Prayer for Enduring Grading
May I never read another sentence with the adjective “heavy” or the adverb “heavily” in it, describing something that DOES NOT HAVE WEIGHT, EVEN METAPHORICALLY. Sighing. Heavily. Image: Stained glass windows at All Saints Church, Ripley, Yorkshire, by Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Anniversary
I quit smoking November 4, 2002. Thank you, Jesus. Image: Witten Flügelherzen by Almut Rybarsch, photographed by Reclus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Behind Time
Here is something really great to read, on time and how we think we control it, but do not. I particularly appreciated the author’s holding up a mirror to me and my own inability to consistently pass up self-help time management books. There will be notes on Romans 1:8-17, the text we are studying for…
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First Things First
We are studying James 2:1-13 for Sunday, November 29 – the part of James 2 we DIDN’T study this past August and two years before that, as providence and the Committee on the Uniform Series would have it. I will post notes. But probably not until Friday, what with grading, and cooking, and the commonsensically-risk-managed-but-not-100%-cancelled…
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“Expect Delays”
Because before I can post notes on the Bible I need to grade assignments and pay bills and cook dinner. And sleep. Just sayin’. (Four more weeks in this session … )
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What I’ve been doing
This is what I’ve been doing for the past three weeks. Just sayin’. The learning curve is steep. Notes on Hosea 11 & 12 are coming. Probably tomorrow. I can’t believe she expects us to do all this reading …
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Studying Jeremiah Part 2 Prequel
We are studying parts of Jeremiah 22 for Sunday, May 24 – some of which we already looked at last week, to explain the justice and righteousness being called for in Jeremiah 21. I’m still behind schedule – it looks like this will be a perpetual thing for the next several weeks, because the pace…
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Self-Discovery
Here’s what I’ve learned in less than three days of teaching a class online: It is abundantly far more difficult to video a deck of slides than I had asked for or imagined. Corollary: twice my usual last minute, so what I thought would be the last couple of minutes, which is twice what I…
Matters of Interpretation 