Sam Harrelson

Why would anyone pay $2 million for a tattered book of Christian prayers from 1200 A.D.? The anonymous philanthropist who coughed up the sum in 1998 wasn’t lured by the holy writings. He was after the faint ink beneath — mathematical theorems and diagrams from the Greek scholar Archimedes, who lived more than 2,000 years [...]

Note that this is a discussion of “Baptist” higher education, as opposed to “Christian” higher education. In this context, it helps to remember that Jerry Falwell is a Southern Baptist, but so is Bill Clinton. Pat Robertson is a Southern Baptist, but so is Bill Moyers. Baptists, across the South, can be anything from Unitarians [...]

For those of you who missed the story a week or so ago, Wingate made a fuss in the press over the University’s choice of required freshman summer reading — Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett — ostensibly for the purpose of adorning his political resume with more conservative credentials. (I think you’re [...]

Blue Note Records are the owners of recordings by classic jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and Chet Baker and they have now said that they would be launching select cuts from its trove of recordings for use on mobile phones as ring tones.
Blue Note Records to release ring tones of [...]

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This is taken from an email reply that I wrote today to a question that Rion posed about my love for Matthew 6.  I thought it was a good summary of me, so I’ll share…
Matthew 6 is the focal point of my own personal theology b/c it’s about
a sincere response to God… how to pray, [...]

I always thought Hell was under Columbia, SC (which explained the unnatural heat)…
“We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own equipment.”
“But when we made [...]

My 8th graders would not agree with this as they were always lobbying to have study time with their iPods on (from SuperWayne)…
“The best thing you can do to improve your memory is to pay attention to the things you want to remember,” Poldrack added. “Our data support that. When distractions force you to pay [...]

Friend sent this meme over.  Copy it and fill in your own responses.  Post in the comments or send me an email…
1. One book that changed your life:
Book of Amos
2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
Principia by Newton
4. One book that made [...]