Rachel Barenblaat - on making oneself known.
James McGrath - reporting on John Polkinghorne re science vs religion.
Bruggemann's Jesse Tree project is very full - lots of possible work here for the dedicated.
Have a look at Shawna Slater's answer to telling your kids about Santa. The 'Yes, Virginia' story is there too.
This post I did from October is very relevant to Advent. Music is a weapon of war - against mental illness, against violence, against depression. It defines a time in which irrelevant arguments (like religion or faith vs science) have no place. Ignore the distractions. Take every precaution to discover them before they distract you. I had occasion to set a little of this chapter 2 Chronicles 20 as part of volume 7 of Bob's Bible - coming under a different title to an ebook publisher near you.
Jesus in Egypt reading Exodus with his mother, from Kurk Gayle.
Jim Gordon on the crib. This is a teacher who knows how to read poetry.
While dealing with gender difficulties would have distracted me from my reading project. (For the gender difficulty of language appears insoluble to me today). There is a real difficulty with gender bias and power. This article via blt is clear on the issues.
Is Luke correcting Josephus? Is Luke disguising history for the sake of theology or just to keep his head down? Is our idea of 'historical' just another distraction to stop us from actually doing something good?
What's Jesus about these days? The Velveteen Rabbi has a poem on it.
Remind me to follow up on this one re the purification of women after childbirth.
Worried about the future, try this page. (Via Henry)
I managed to produce a full glossary this month. See the links in the Analysis page.
Jim Davila points to the star of Bethlehem as midrash on Numbers 24:17.
When exactly did the word become flesh.
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