Recently I have been informed of two sites that I am really excited about. The first I found out about via Justin Taylor’s blog: John Frame’s and Vern Poythress’ site. It contains a growing number of their books, articles, lectures. John Frame is a renowned theologian who has taught at Westminster Theological Seminary and currently teaches at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has written extensively on apologetics, theology proper, worship, and philosophy. Vern Poythress has been a professor at Westminster, teaching New Testament, hermeneutics, linguistics, and exegetical methodology. He is less known than Frame, but his work is the same caliber in significance. I am so glad two theological studs are making their broad and important resources available for free. They also have a lot to say about digital copywriting. Another fantastic place that I have just found via Josh’s blog: The Drama of Scripture. It is a website devoted to the book (listed on my current reading) and the promotion of biblical theology. It has PDF files to use for Bible studies, classes, and other teaching formats. Again, this is for free. Check them out, for these are rich resources.
Dave's Exegesis is my eclectic site of exegesis on pretty much everything I can think of, whether biblical studies, theology, music, movies, culture, food, drink, sports, or the internet.
Tell me how you guys like the new look. I was tipped off by Samwise as he was looking for a new template that there was a blog about blogger templates: blogger-templates.blogspot.com. I have saved the old one so I can go back, but I trying this out for now.
As of Monday, I have been blogging for a year now. That’s very cool. In light of this, I’ve included a Bono anecdote below with regards to Johnny Cash from U2 Sermons:
Bono: When I visited him at home one time, he said the most beautiful, poetic grace. He said, “Shall we bow our heads?” We all bowed our heads. Then, when he was done, he looked at me and Adam Clayton and said, “Sure miss the drugs, though.”
I busted out laughing pretty hard when I read that. I suppose I understand.
My beautiful Kalila has brought to my attention that dooce.com was mentioned in an article by the Washington Post. Kalila likes to check “Dooce” every so often as it is linked on Dr. James’ blog. Dooce is very funny because she tells things like it is from her perspective, in a clever way. Her entries can be too long for me sometimes, but I find her interesting nonetheless. Anyhoo, Dooce was mentioned because she is one of many that have been fired because of her blog. She has even coined the action as “being dooced” (dooce referring to dropping a dooce in the bathroom sense). I just think its unreal that blogs are so “influential” that it has costed people their jobs. And it’s not because people are blogging on company time, it’s because of the content of their entries. Check out the article at http://story.news.yahoo.com/ news?tmpl=story&cid=1804&ncid=1804&e=1&u=/ washpost/20050211/tc_washpost/ a15511_2005feb10. Another person featured in the article, Mark Jen, actually got fired from Google (who actually encourage their employees to blog) for his blog. Hello, Google runs blogger.com. I thought he had some interesting things to say about the situation on his blog (http://www.99zeros.blogspot.com). I thought it was ironic that he still uses blogger. Here are some thoughts he had about blogging:
people ask me if i’m bitter. funny thing is, despite all this, at the end of the day, i can see where google is coming from - but i don’t agree with their stances and i wish they had executed a little differently. i think blogging is the next big thing on the internet. the web gave people revolutionary access to information; email and instant messaging disrupted the way people communicate with each other; blogging empowers everyone to create new information and connect in a community. it’s the culmination of lots of the progress that has happened on the internet rolled into one huge, powerful, killer app. corporations should embrace this technology just like the ones before it. companies that are confident in their offerings should let employees spread the word. in today’s age of information overload, blogging is quickly emerging as the fastest and most cost-effective method of marketing.
I particularly resonate with the article because my boss, also a friend, read comments I’ve made on my blog about her, and that sparked some discussion about a particular situation. She was very gracious and understanding, and she has now joined the ranks of the blogging (Welcome Eli!). Oh well, thought this was an interesting article.