The life of a PhD student

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Garry Williams

Very late in spotting this fascinating interview with Garry before he was due to start as the Director of the John Owen Centre.

Blueprint

Blueprint, the annual Co-mission media forum will be held on 13th Feb, 2010. Main speakers this year are Ellis Potter and Jim Paul (more details on the Blueprint page). Minor speakers may include yours truly. This year’s theme is work:
Doing good work is time-consuming and hard. Why do it? What is the [...]

On the whole, it’s probably a good thing I’m not male…

You’re Origen!
You do nothing by half-measures. If you’re going to read the Bible, you want to read it in the original languages. If you’re going to teach, you’re going to reach as many souls as possible, through a proliferation of lectures and books. If you’re a guy and you’re going to fight for purity … [...]

Guilty as charged

The new Church of England logo and tagline.

He is risen indeed

Fabulous article from the Times by Tom Wright* on Easter:
For at least 200 years the West has lived on the dream that we can bring justice and beauty to the world all by ourselves…
*He is currently the Bishop of Durham, but I remember him vividly from his time as chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford. [...]

Clerical shirts

I do seem to remember a number of my friends bemoaning the lack of affordable, well-made, cotton clerical shirts. These are fair trade, but I don’t think that should put you off if they fit the bill in other respects. They are also asking for suggestions of colours to expand their range.
ETA: On [...]

And good riddance!

The End of the Internet

It’s never too late…

…to celebrate International Septuagint Day! Though I should point out that, technically, this was last week. But still, what’s a week or two in the context of more than 2,000 years or so since the Septuagint was produced?
Here’s an excellent post explaining why the LXX is such an important text for all biblical [...]

Rosclarke.co.uk

I have a website! Come and look at the shiny. (It’s not all pink, I promise.)
This does not mean that I am abandoning the blog, by any means. But the blog doesn’t do everything I want. I’m hoping to expand the website to be a useful resource of links, essays and [...]