Reader update: The beginning (the end)
Pia Stern, The Beginning (The End), 2005 Dear Readers, On the 18th of this month I will begin teaching at Agnes Scott College. I will have one introductory physics course-lab combination (electricity & magnetism) and one upper-level optics course. I’ve never taught optics before, so I get to learn some new stuff — exciting! I [...]
Reader update
Dear Alert Readers, I will continue to blog at RD for the indefinite future. This doesn’t mean I won’t be posting at psnt.net also; it’s just that current-eventy stuff will show up there, while more philosophical and religious posts will remain here. So I will continue to inform you when something shows up there. Thanks [...]
Guest blogging at RD
Dear Alert Readers, I will be guest blogging at Religion Dispatches over the next month. My first piece is out today and I’ll be adding my perspective two or three times a week. Every time a new article is published I’ll send out a note to all psnt.net email subscribers and alert those who follow [...]
Brief intermission
Dear Alert Readers, There will be a few weeks of relative quiet here at psnt.net as I hunt for a job. I’ll be posting as I’m able, but will be rather inconsistent. I look forward to returning to the site in full force as soon as I’m able. Yours, Paul
Time for a sabbatical
Vasiliy Koren, God Reposing on the Sabbath (1696). Woodcut from the first engraved Christian Bible in Russian. I’m not God, but I do need a rest. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Dear Alert Readers, I am nearing the completion of my MDiv and life and schoolwork are piling up quickly. Therefore I’ll be taking a sabbatical [...]
One year in. Let’s dance
What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Above, Matt Harding traveled through many nations on Earth, started dancing, and filmed the result. The video is perhaps a [...]
From the Dept. of One Must, At Times, Veer Off-Topic: The evils of fundamentalism: blame the victim
There are lots of sites that make fun of Christian fundamentalism, and some of them do it very well. See, for example, Stuff Fundies Like. Sometimes, however, fundamentalism is not funny at all. This is, in a way, blatantly obvious. But there are quiet, covert ways that fundamentalism deals in fear and death. These kinds of [...]
