Phillip Camp

I had the privilege of spending a little time with John Mark Hicks and Bobby Valentine discussing Psalm 113 for their podcast Derek: Meditating on the Way. youtube.com/watch?v=IZtml2…

If someone complains that it’s anti-religion or anti-Christian to say “Happy holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas,” remind them that “holiday” originally meant “holy day.” If they respond that “holiday” doesn’t mean what it used to, remind them that neither does “Christmas.”

Key elements of the “argument culture’s” script: 1. Consideration of an opposing argument = condoning it. 2. Values monologue over dialogue. 3. Doesn’t merely disagree but demonizes. 4. Online disinhibition. Muelhoff & Langer, Winsome Persuasion

If you have people on your Christmas list who love to pray, or read about praying, then you should get for them Praying with Ancient Israel and Seeking with God, both available on Amazon. amazon.com/Praying-Ancien… amazon.com/Speaking-God-T…

@carmenjoyimes and administrators who think the time around finals is a good time to have meetings, adding to the avalanche, because we don't have classes.

One thing I love about the academic calendar is the fresh slate every semester. One thing that's difficult is the avalanche of responsibilities that are all due at the same time at the end of the semester! #amgrading #grantwriting #amediting #finalsweek

Truly frightening.

"I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason which he is anxious to conceal." Dr. Fagan in Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall.

Phoenicia is another word I must depend on autocorrect to spell correctly.

"Faculty meetings always take too long. When you are a professor in a university, you must persuade your colleagues not to have long faculty meetings." David Malter, in The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

"Sleep is a daily, enfleshed reminder that it's God, not us, who is the maker and mover of our lives. Practices of prayer, like...sleep, are a way to enter a posture of resting in God in the face of our utter frailty, with no promise of how or when morning will come." Tish Warren

"For the Christian, sleep is an embodied way to confess our trust that God does not depend on us." Tish Harrison Warren, Prayer in the Night.

For those keeping track, yes Jeremiah 29:11 was used in Lipscomb's graduation yesterday.

OT humor

My Hebrew students had this up on the screen when I came into class today

Reviving intellectual hospitality. Some good suggestions on where to start. comment.org/reviving-intel…

@SaraGBarton Dared you? That doesn't sound like me. In any case, please let me know if it is posted online. I still share the link to your sermon on Absalom from Summer Celebration with my Samuel classes.

Found my office door decorated this morning. I think someone just created my Hebrew final exam.

A leading forensic anthropologist speaks to the danger of cats.

God's Ancient Library foundation donated a 18th c. Torah scroll to Lipscomb University this week. @lipscomb @HazelipSchoolTh @LipscombBible