Ruminations about hermeneutics, theology, theory, politics, ecclesiastical life… and exercise.
I’ve spent much of the last couple of days populating a database of PDFs of and links to public domain theological sources. St Stephen’s House is looking to modulate toward more thoroughly distance-based teaching, and we can’t assume that our students will have ready access to research materials at their homes; by compiling a library…
I am certain that there are many users of online marking systems who interact with those systems contentedly and effectively. Thqt certainty, though, is an inference from the size of the sample (millions of users) and general probability (lots of people like user experiences that I detest, so presumably some of them are working with…
Glad to hear that the UK’s vaccination drive is proceeding satisfactorily, heartsick that the rate of deaths from COVID is still at higher levels than last April. As Margaret and I keep our heads down, wear masks, stay at home, we’re very eager to get our vaccine. If you know an injectionist with a dose…
Strek to eighteen.
I woke up this morning to discover that David Weinberger has been blogging about ethics and technology. It was almost as though I’d been projected backward in time nineteen years! David sketches two main approaches to ethical deliberation, consequentialism and deontology, and invokes the contemporary ‘ethics of care’ in passing. He doesn’t say anything about…
It doesn’t feel like it, in part because of the lockdown and the concomitant absence of students, but today is the first working day of Hilary Term. I shifted fairly smoothly into administrative productivity despite working in a heat-deprived environment today and yesterday. The heater person came in to replace the fan in our heater…
No, it had to be the coldest day (so far) of the winter that the exhaust fan on our heater went out. That means the pilot light won’t go on, because there’s no exhaust fan to blow the fumes to the outdoors. No pilot light means no heat. No heat means very cold house. We…
Day Four of the US Fascist Crisis dawns (in the UK) on the note that various social media providers have cut off the Presidunce and his enablers. This is probably a good thing, but there is plenty of time for DJT and company, and the various Proud Children and Q-cumbers, to strike again — four…
Today I extended my streak running streak to thirteen days (running in the snow, which is no big deal for my friends in the northern US or Canada, but which borders on madness, madness I tell you, in England). Later in the day I finished off an editing project (with invaluable feedback from my generous…
Late last year I tweeted a comparison of US politics to the novel Seven Days in May. If we start with the Georgia election, I make this the end of Seven Days in January, Day Two (USA time). We’ll see how the next five days go. On an unrelated note, my streak running streak is…
Job well done, Georgia, if by an uncomfortably narrow margin. I know it would have been a wider margin without the voter-suppression activities that the stte government has pursued for the past few years. Now that Mitch McConnell is no longer absolute monarch of the Senate, here are some developments I’d like to see: National…
I just caught myself letting a day slip past without having blogged. That will not do! Over the weekend I saw an article on ‘streak running’, which I first thought referred to nakedness. It develops, if your frame of reference matches mine, that it has become a thing to run on consecutive days. This revelation…