“To conclude this sermon, today I implore all of you to listen to the Holy Spirit in your lives. You need to pray to seek God, tune your ears to hear him, and make space… Read more: Empty Christian speak

In my last post, I talked about the insanities of the research funding process, ranging from the astronomical time sink in preparing grant proposals, to the arbitrary nature of the selection process that favors safe… Read more: Ecology – A slow science

When I was in middle school, literature was one of my absolute least favorite subjects. I was forced to read two books: Animal Farm (by George Orwell) and Sing to the Dawn (by Minfong Ho).… Read more: How to read the bible – An anti-hermeneutic approach

If you ask any academic to name the least enjoyable aspects of academic life, grant writing will almost certainly rank near the top of the list. Just over a week ago, the European Commission released… Read more: The woes of research funding

Last year, I spent two blog posts covering a book that I read from Dr. Paula Fredriksen, one of the world’s leading experts on early Christianity – a book very ironically yet appropriately named Ancient… Read more: Which theology? TheoCompass v1.0