One of the rarest animal sightings in the world: chirodectes maculatus, only seen once before

That's a complicated question, you see... 😅

Hard to put into words the enormous discovery revealed at the The Anglican Way's annual conference this week. The newly elected bishop of North Africa (Dr. Ashley Null) upended decades of scholarship surrounding Abp. Thomas Cranmer which assumed that Cranmer's mature Eucharistic

I know there is a lot going on in the world right now, but I must know: who wins in a fight between lyrical Jesse James and a lyrical gangster?

I use this skit when I teach the book of Romans

This tracks. I sense some overlap with the concepts espoused by Girard on mimesis and scapegoating.

Brilliant sussing out of a Lenten allusion in Tolkien!

Thomas Mann, whose definition of a writer was succinct: "someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

I translated the Aeneid from the Latin my senior year of high school. I was the only 3rd year Latin student in a high school of 2000 students in a Northern Virginia County. It was my favorite class. Wish I had kept it up.

Today I, like virtually every other full-time employee at VOA, was placed on administrative leave indefinitely. I'm not allowed to report the news to our hundreds of millions of viewers at this time. Let's hope this is temporary. A silencing of VOA will be celebrated by

Remembering Leonard today on what would have been his 94th birthday. 😔

This Guy built an insane backyard Hot Wheels track with a 30ft gondola

The legendary Tom Jones hits spiritual high with Blind Boys Of Alabama backstage at the Byron Bay Blues Fest, running through a stunning rendition of the American folk song "God's Gonna Cut You Down" He might be 84, but Tom Jones proved he’s lost none of his vocal power.

Unique kinetic installation in Germany's Sprengel Museum A buoy swinging in the air, it is precisely synchronized with its real double somewhere in the Atlantic and repeats its walking on the waves.

—On the name “Israel”— In the Hebrew Bible, “Israel” is the name given to Jacob at Jabbok. Jews today trace their ancestry to Jacob, and thus count themselves among the “Children of Israel”. But from when did Jews/Judeans actually begin to regard themselves as “Israel”? 🧵1/17

Master's thesis successfully defended!

Walked the walk this weekend! MAR - Biblical Studies achieved!

"In antiquity, we have miracle, and we have medicine, and we have magic. So how do we know that Jesus is engaged in miracle? Because it comes for free. Free health care is a miracle, we know that even today. Medicine and magic cost money." Dr. Amy-Jill Levine

This map tells you how a seemingly innocent difference, like wheat vs rice eating, can have dramatic political, economic, and cultural ramifications: 🧵