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A lot to be thankful for
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I know I certainly have a great deal to be thankful for.
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Python to save your soul
In a previous post, I showed you how Python can let you print important things over and over again. Here I’m posting a video that just might save your soul with the code for the quiz at the bottom of the post: from random import randint import sys questions = {1 : [“Joel is a…
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Audio from talk on Old Testament violence at Holy Ghost
For those who were interested, below is a link to the audio from my talk on violence in the Old Testament this past Monday at Holy Ghost. It’s very echo-y since it was in the parish hall and the train passed twice, but you should be able to hear it okay. Old Testament Violence (right-click/ctrl-click…
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Reason #1 learning some programming can be helpful …
You can print important things over and over again. Thinking this might come in handy with some of my Twitter conversations at some point.
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Buying Joel’s Book = Sacrifice to Goat Demons: A Pesher for Today
I was annotating Leviticus today, and the meaning of 17:7 was readily apparent. Once you understand that Joel in his multiple personalities = the goat demons, you are on your way to understanding the text: So they (people who have recently bought a book on mimetic criticism and the Gospel of Mark) shall no more…
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That’s Deep, Deep
Sometimes repetition of a word has an intensifying effect. We have examples of this in English: 1. (Me to my kids sometimes): If you don’t start acting right, we’re going to have a big, big problem. 2. The pope has resigned. It’s a sad, sad day. I recently came across my favorite example of this…
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Sitting, Dwelling and the Unworthiness of the Messenger
There is a thread that runs through all of the lectionary readings for today. We see in Isaiah, Paul in 1 Corinthians and Peter in the Gospel reading the unworthiness of the messenger. This is evident in any number of ways in Isaiah 6, but one of the aspects of the reading I noticed is…