It was in late 2008 or early 2009, I can’t remember which, that I first found myself staring with some confusion at a church directory containing a truly ridiculous number of entries under V and Z. Also, there were no Toews. Nor Thiessens. Nor Klassens, Peters, nor Enns (not even Ens!). For a guy who […]
Continue Reading[Trigger Warning: rape, sexual abuse] [Update: Please note that Jared Wilson has publicly apologized for the initial post and, to a degree, his response. I applaud him for doing so, as public apologies can be very difficult to swallow. I still disagree with his views on human sexuality, and think that there are significant and […]
Continue ReadingOne of the joys of being home in Saskatchewan right now is that I get to spend time with my sister Terry and her husband Tim. Of all of our family we’ve probably seen the least of them since we moved out to Ontario a few years ago, and so it was great to spend […]
Continue ReadingLast week was a very good week, especially for my CV.* First, on Wednesday I heard back from the editors of a collection of essays to which I’ve contributed a paper with the news that they were accepting my 4th revision for publication. Yay! Second, on Friday I heard back from a peer-reviewed journal saying […]
Continue ReadingWell folks, meet my brand new little girl, born by c-section this afternoon at 1:44, 8lbs, 4oz. Ainsley and mommy are both doing great.
Continue ReadingThe year after I graduated from high school I worked as a laborer at a company called Nu-Fab. Nu-Fab builds pre-fabricated housing products, including things like pre-made walls, laminated beams, gable ends and gable ladders, and (most of all) roof trusses. I spent almost all of my time at Nu-Fab building roof trusses. It was […]
Continue ReadingI realized today that I haven’t even opened my WordPress dashboard in weeks. And when I did finally open it, I really didn’t have any particular desire to write anything. All of this tells me that it’s time to take a break from blogging. I’ll leave the page up, and I might decide to come […]
Continue ReadingThe countdown until the end of the semester is on. I can tell for two basic reasons. The first is that hits on my Hebrew Stuff page have been spiking again, so I know the Intermediate Hebrew crew are working on their vocab and parsing skills. The second is that it’s Monday night at 8:41 […]
Continue ReadingHas anybody else noticed that the biggest item on Roland Boer’s tag cloud is “Jim West”? Hmmmmm, curiouser and curiouser. Also, spell checker doesn’t pick up curiouser, which is odd.
Continue ReadingAs some of my recent posts have indicated, my first time out to the SBL annual meeting was very enjoyable. I learned an awful lot, and I met some new people, some of whom I’d been hoping to meet. I also didn’t do enough fun things or meet enough new people, which is a problem […]
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