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Top Tips For Writing 10,000 Words of a Thesis in a Week 15 Jun 2012 | 07:45 am
1. Know what you have got to say This is a huge one for me and I really ought to have learned it by now. More often than not, when the thesis stalls and I stop working on it, it’s because I don’t rea...
The cost of a PhD 21 Oct 2011 | 09:52 pm
When I first started telling people I was thinking of doing a PhD, I got mixed responses. Lots of encouragement but also quite a lot of warnings. I remember one friend in particular, who had done a Ph...
Why don’t I get jobs? 2 Feb 2011 | 01:58 pm
Apologies for those who were hoping for a return to regular posting this year. The PhD is progressing but there is still much to be done and for a variety of reasons, none of it has been done in Janua...
End of the blog 1 Jan 2010 | 08:49 am
For the moment, anyway. I haven’t been posting a whole lot lately and I don’t plan to until after 2010: The Year of the PhD is over. So long, and thanks for all the comments. I’m freezing the threads ...
A post-mill view of the future 21 Dec 2009 | 11:44 pm
Courtesy of Peter Leithart. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
An ambition unexpectedly fulfilled 15 Dec 2009 | 11:43 am
My brother got married on Saturday. He is not a Christian, and after a certain amount of discussion and compromise, he and his fiancée decided to have a civil ceremony, followed by a church blessing. ...
Their works shall follow them 12 Dec 2009 | 09:14 am
Jam Cary (co-author of the funniest sitcom on TV at the moment) is organising the second Blueprint annual conference for Christians working in the media, arts, design and music on Feb 13th, 2010. I se...
Dad 2 Dec 2009 | 04:24 am
There are (at least) two biblical Hebrew words for breasts: dad and shad (or possibly shod). I have just spent a fairly fruitless half an hour trying to determine whether these two have an etymologica...
SBL Presentations 24 Nov 2009 | 01:20 pm
Friday, 3.30-5.30pm, Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar This was a discussion of Ellen Davis’s ‘Scripture, Culture and Agriculture’. Craig Bartholomew and David Moessner responded to the book, then E...
Knitting at SBL 24 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
Something else which has made this year’s SBL more fun has been the knitting I brought with me. Most of the papers, even when they are interesting and well-presented, are not the kind of thing I need ...