jerusalem, the holy city course begins today

my jerusalem, the holy city course begins today at ucla. check out the course’s blog for details. You can follow the course on Twitter, Facebook, and you can watch podcasts of Dr. Cargill’s lectures on iTunes U. Registered students may access the course website here. This blog is provided as a public service to any [...]

a few wedding pix

here are a few early returns from wedding pix. :) -bc (in dublin)

today, i marry roslyn

today, i marry the woman i love overlooking the pacific. i truly love her, and this day could not come soon enough. so, i like blogging and all, but all apologies if i’m offline for a week. not that i will ever be truly offline, but i reserve the right to not blog from my [...]

my 2010 ncaa men’s hoop bracket

since some consider march madness a religion, i figure i can share my bracket publicly, so that i’m on record. ucla did not make the tourney, so this year doesn’t count ;-) btw, the hardest one i had to decide was #5 butler vs. #12 utep. i really think utep can surprise folks, but i [...]

qumran quote of the day: roland de vaux on the origin of the ‘jerusalem origin’ theory

We have been dealing so far with the question of how the manuscripts came to be collected in the Qumran caves, the character of the collection itself, its undoubted antiquity, and finally the connection between the caves and the buildings. Attempts have been made, however, to explain these points by a different hypothesis, one that [...]

on recent erroneous claims made by the minnesota dead sea scrolls exhibition

a point of order, mr. speaker. i recently came across the march 13, 2010 associated press article on the kstp.com website entitled, ‘dead sea scrolls exhibit goes on display in minn.‘ the article is publicizing the latest dead sea scrolls exhibition at the science museum of minnesota in st. paul, minnesota. before i could even [...]

how not to talk about the importance of the dead sea scrolls

i came across this video today from randall niles, a finance and securities lawyer in colorado who now heads up multiple christian companies, including a llc called thinkworks™, whose mission is ‘to get real and encourage others in their life journeys.’ (see for yourself.) in the video, mr. niles was attempting to explain why the dead [...]

email etiquette: tips on email use

the following is a set of practical guidelines for anyone who uses email in the course of their work in higher education. a good email citizen sends emails that are effective and collegial in terms of content, and is cognizant of the differences between emails with a single recipient and those with multiple recipients. in [...]

attention bloggers and coders: introducing google’s pubsubhubbub

google is introducing pubsubhubbub. it’s an open protocol for training atom and rss feeds into realtime streams. or, in nontech terms, it’s a subscription model that allows two completely different websites to communicate in realtime through a hub. in even simpler terms, it’s a cross-platform subscription service. for example, if you blog on wordpress, you [...]

oye vey: 3d creation movie coming soon

mike fleming brings exclusive news in a deadline new york article entitled, ‘god stars in 3d book of genesis bible tale.’ in the story we learn: Paramount Pictures and former Walden Media co-founder Cary Granat producing with Reel Fx are mounting In The Beginning, a 3D telling of the creation story. The film is using [...]

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