Bored in Vernal has just posted her official summary and review of chapter four of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus. I know that this means that we’re mixing the order for the chapter reviews, but I think that this is preferable to loss of momentum. Thanks, BiV, for an excellent review, and I hop you will [...]

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Today, or some time this week, do one little thing that’s outside of your comfort zone.¬† Then return and report.

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Most people at work know that I want to get a PhD in religious studies (only one year left to my master’s degree!). But I was a little taken aback when my office mate said, “John, I’m waiting for you to get that PhD so that you can come back and give me all the [...]

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A few of you (meaning anyone who is not Senator Stevens) may be familiar with this duo: But how many of you have seen these geeky guys:

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One of my sisters just got engaged. And I’m very happy for her. I hope that this is the love she has been waiting for. I hope that this marriage lasts (her fiance is a double-divorcer, just recently annulled). I hope that she is happy. She will be moving from New Mexico to LA and, [...]

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which is a better result than I expected. Tho I object to the final choice on the “opposite sex” question. It’s like asking someone if they have an accent. I am: Ursula K. LeGuin Perhaps the most admired writing talent in the science fiction field. Which science fiction writer are you? Who are you?

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I was an anti-war activist. For the first half of 2003, I designed, printed and posted flyers, organized and gave speeches at rallies, and marched, held signs and shouted slogans. I lost steam by the time of Bush’s “mission accomplished” speech. I felt betrayed, burnt out, and disillusioned with protesting (precipitating a personal recession –maybe [...]

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The three major monotheistic religions all have holy books that date to a minimum of 1400 years ago. This makes the relevance of these supposed Divine rules somewhat suspect. A Jewish cartoon that I enjoy reading has an interesting take on Jewish bioethics, including links under the cartoon to discussions of same. Among some of [...]

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I have doing the work + school thing for so long that I’ve developed the sad habit of calling the times when I’m only working full-time “vacation.” And after two weeks at feminist Mormon housewives, I felt a little blogged-out. Fortunately, none of you have missed me because of Miko’s l337 bl0gg1ng skilz. For the [...]

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The Turing Test, as we are all aware, I’m sure, is a test to see if a computer can convince a human that it is human. Now, since I name my computers (and car), I may not be the best judge of such a test. The results of Turing Tes seem to me to be [...]

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