andersoj.org oddments

Mars Hill Review has Interviews: A Conversation with Lauren Winner. Go, Lauren Winner fans, go! –JA

The Josh Kornbluth has a show on PBS. I have no idea what to do with this, other than suggest that others take a gander at Haiku Tunnel (or, of you’re a Netflix aficianado), then sit back and marvel with me. –JA

Jonathan Sacks’ recent Credo column in the Times was a reflection and words of hope regarding appropriate religious responses to the recent spate of natural disasters. Sacks is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, for which there is an excellent website, with links to a variety of Sacks’ other work. –JA

Ken Myers recently gave the three lectures to a group of faculty and graduate students at Vanderbilt University, under the auspices of the Humanitas Project. The link above provides a PDF transcript of Myers’ lecture, Faithful Stewards or Terrestrial Gods? Christianity and the Chief End of Science and an mp3 audio stream of Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Whole: The Embodied Character of Salvation and the Basis of Bioethics. Myers is the host of one of my favorite periodicals, the Mars Hill Audio Journal. –JA (more…)

Bill Moyers recently delivered the keynote address at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Austin, TX. They have posted a transcript as well as a full-length mp3 of the speech. Perhaps I’ve had my head in the sand, but this segment of the speech on changes at Corporation for Public Broadcasting really caught me off guard. I’ll try to dig up some more references for this and post them below; meanwhile read on for an excerpt from Moyer’s speech… (more…)

Just a post to note that I’ve put up a dedicated page here to provide links, context, critical reviews, and other resources associated with the Living the Questions curriculum. Please comment on this post or the linked page if you can offer corrections, improved links, or any other critique. –JA

I wanted to call your attention to a few features I’ve been playing with on this site. The first thing to note is the partial integration of my del.icio.us links with the blog site. You can jump to the full interface here. I’ve also introduced a cached copy in the “pages” section of the sidebar. This allows me to maintain a local copy of these links in the event that the del.icio.us server goes down, and it helps reduce load on the server. I’d be pleased to hear if anyone else has a del.icio.us account…

I have also provided a link to my tribe.net profile in the “andersoj stuff” section of the sidebar. This is an interesting social networking project that you might enjoy visiting. If you’d like a tribe.net invitation, please let meknow.

Another interesting feature is the geourl link, which provides a database of web services organized geographically. Have a look at the geourl site to see how your web services could participate. The link from here will show you, for instance, what web services claim to be located near our home in Blacksburg, VA.

Renewed interest in secure email has encouraged me to make my GnuPG key available. See the page called communicating-with-jonathan for my public key and links to related resources. An S/MIME key is also available upon request.

I have also registered this site with a few blog search services. For instance, google’s blogsearch service now indexes the stories on this site, and you can follow links between this blog and others by looking at technorati.

On 16 October 2005, Blacksburg Presbyterian will be hosting speaker Holmes Rolston, Distinguished University Professor from Colorado State University. As a part of BPC’s Peacemaking Sunday events, Professor Rolston will be delivering the sermon as well as joining in a variety of less formal discussions. The theme will be Christian engagement with environmental challenges.

Rolston is a Templeton award winner (2003) and a Gifford Lecturer (topic: “Genes, Genesis, and God”). Those of you with google accounts can read the full text of the book online.

–JA

I was quite taken with the little sidebar in this week’s Economist:

…When cruising along Namibia’s long and empty roads, unsuspecting drivers face a no less dangerous hazard: sleeping donkeys. At night, the warm tarmac provides a much more comfortable bed than the vast expanses of land only a few yards away. Invisible in the darkm the dormant asses, which help plough Namibia’s land and pull its carts, have become a cause of many a car crash…In May, the head of the president’s guard was killed–by a donkey.

The article goes on to discuss what sounds like some kind of British non-profit organization which has been formed for the purpose of making the “donkeys glow by attaching reflective tags to their ears.”

All I can say is, “wow.” For those of you with an Economist subsctription, you can read the article here. –JA

Poking around for Eugene Peterson links, I was surprised and amused to find this connection: @U2: U2 Connections - Eugene Peterson between the storied band U2 and Peterson. –JA