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Academic Scholarship on Reddit
Today I learned (sorry, I couldn’t resist using that popular Reddit phrase in this context) that there is a subreddit on Reddit dedicated to matters pertaining to the academic study of the Bible.One...
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Durham Research Online
Many readers will already be aware of the University of Durham E-Theses repository, where digital copies of dissertations are made available. But there is also a larger institutional repository, Durham...
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Serbian Academics Dupe Romanian Magazine
If scholarly publications in the English-speaking world can be duped (think the Sokal hoax) into publishing a spoof as a serious article, how much more, one might think, could this happen in Eastern...
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Churches and Intellectuals
Stephen Mattson has written a piece for Sojourners, “Do Churches Alienate Intellectuals?” Here is a sample:By their very nature, intellectuals are curious. They analyze, theorize, and love to ask...
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Get to Know Bible Scholars
A friend shared the images below from the book Get to Know Jesus by Nancy I. Sanders on Facebook. The characterization of what Bible scholars have to say in the second image is appallingly dishonest. I...
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Why Academics Really Use Twitter
The Facebook page “S**t Academics Say” shared two images, which I am passing on below. One is a diagram from Nature about the ways that academics use Twitter. The other is a PHD Comic about the real...
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Listen, Academics!
Almost as soon as the Doctor gave his monologue in the episode “Listen,” I had the idea for this version of it, playing on a dream that all people may not have, but I am pretty sure all academics have....
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I’m a Professor
I saw the above on the Facebook page S@!t Academics Say, which also shared this example of what a professor really did: put a photo of himself on his door so that students may think they are talking to...
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Get a Life
A friend shared this picture of a comment someone had written in an academic book. I am surprised I don’t get similar comments on some of my blog posts…
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CIC Information Fluency Workshop
I am currently in Baltimore with some colleagues, at a workshop focused on information fluency in the disciplines of religion, philosophy, and the history of ideas. It started yesterday, and has...
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Summer Begins
Grades were due in today at Butler University, and so this kind of, sort of, marks the beginning of summer from an academic perspective. Actually, I have some administrative, assessment-related...
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Bibliogians and Bibliology
Pete Enns wrote a blog post pointing out that, while there is a one word answer to the question “What do you do for a living?” that philosophers, theologians, historians, physicists, and other...
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Theoretical Cosmoses and Historical Jesuses
I almost opted for the alternative plural forms of both words in the title of this post – “Theoretical Cosmoi and Historical Jesi.” Just in case anyone was wondering. But I figured it was better to...
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I Still/No Longer Believe
There’s been another interesting convergence of the blogosphere. Brandon Withrow shared his story of losing faith while teaching at seminary, and as a result departing from there. Christopher Skinner...
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James Dunn Still Believes
Ken Schenck has been blogging through the book I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship, about the personal faith journeys of academics in the field of...
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Conference BINGO
The American Academy of Religion Facebook page suggested that there might be a need for conference bingo, rather like the “first faculty meeting of the year” bingo that was recently featured in the...
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What I Tell My Students: #AARSBL15 Mentoring Luncheon
The SBL student advisory board put together a wonderful luncheon with great speakers who gave great advice. The funniest was when one speaker, who had become a dean, shared what a colleague told him:...
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Passive-Aggressive Voice
Via $%@! Academics Say. There is also version not customized for academics (although it may not make sense if you don’t like donuts):
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The Real Difference Between Creationism and Mythicism
Creationists can find 3,000 academics who will sign a statement against evolution. That’s not 3,000 academics in relevant fields, just 3,000 academics, including retired ones. I’ve yet to see mythicism...
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Informal Discourse for Academics
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