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… | Continue reading
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 (mi… | Continue reading
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 d… | Continue reading
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 tw… | Continue reading
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 pr… | Continue reading
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 t… | Continue reading
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 … | Continue reading
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, … | Continue reading
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 s… | Continue reading
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… | Continue reading
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 develop… | Continue reading
For this morning’s entry, I’ll just flag up (again, sorry) my article in Horizons in Biblical Theology, wherein I make the connection that links Claude Shannon’s information theory (a very good thi… | Continue reading
Friday I noted on Twitter that in Louis Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews (have I mentioned here before how much I relish that compendium?) volume 3, on the digitised version of which I’m now working,… | Continue reading
Over the holiday I took a lead from Fr Robin’s recommendation and read the Abbé Henri Huvelin’s Some Spiritual Guides of the Seventeenth Century; it was so captivating that I then cleaned it up (ed… | Continue reading
Yes, a momentary pause turned into months-long silence. This, however, is a start, and I will try to keep the blog going daily for Hilary Term. | Continue reading
Not me, I mean, but for my family and many of the people I love it’s Election Day. I’m part of the no-surprises population: if you’ve been paying attention to me for more than a month or so (well, … | Continue reading
I think we have a lesson here. With days that begin with a mile-and-a-half run, cleaning up, Morning Prayer at 7:30, days full of prep, teaching, meetings, and marking, home at 18:30, dinner, and e… | Continue reading
For Brendan and Rosie’s wedding this summer, the first reading was taken from Gregory of Nazianzus’ Carmina 1.2.1. 262-275, 283-287. Brendan supplied a prose translation, but because your blogger h… | Continue reading
Yesterday, Mother Lucy pointed out to me that (according to her youthful, athletic son John) it’s better to take one day off from exercise in a week than to exercise every day. (Actually, she said … | Continue reading
I was going to mention this three weeks ago, when Margaret and I went down to Worthing for Josh Delia’s ordination to the diaconate. ‘This’, that is, that as we waited at Victoria for our train to … | Continue reading
My firm purpose and intention to keep writing online every day has obviously faltered in the face of (a) keeping to my morning run (b) doomscrolling during the mornings, to see what the current occ… | Continue reading
After my morning run, Morning Office, fruit breakfast, House Meeting, and some consultation with colleagues, I gave my first lecture since Hilary Term. It was a bit unnerving, what with a red line … | Continue reading
Morning run, Morning Office, hot breakfast (have I mentioned before how much I love hot breakfast?), morning Mass, a tasty lunch, and the afternoon occupied by various items of course prep. Margare… | Continue reading
Ten percent of the term has passed already. Granted, it had none of the teaching obligations, but I’ll take it anyway; I’ve had a six-month layoff, and I haven’t yet forgotten, omitted, or committe… | Continue reading
Before I get to the important part of the day, just a reminder (to myself as much as anyone) that before the plague set in, I used to run a mile on two mornings a week, maybe three. Now, including … | Continue reading
Morning run, Morning Office, morning Mass, fruit breakfast (and Margaret made a smoothie for me!), and really the rest of the day was almost all course prep of one sort or another. Some corresponde… | Continue reading
On Wednesday mornings, the Office begins a half hour later, a precious thirty minutes that makes a world of difference to the weary flesh. It gave me a pleasant cushion for the timing of my morning… | Continue reading
Social distancing yesterday seemed mostly to be operative. The chapel seating is beginning to settle in (I’m stuck off to the side in the transept, near the shrine for Our Lady of Walsingham, so I … | Continue reading
Morning run, chapel for the Office and Mass, fruit breakfast at home (cos the college doesn’t have space for staff to breakfast with appropriate social distance), then a series of Zoom meetings: on… | Continue reading
Two days of not running in heavy rain, chilly weather. Morning Office, hot breakfast, Morning Worship on Radio Four, morning Mass, a Zoom greeting and introduction to the community, then a socially… | Continue reading
Tomorrow begins Michaelmas Term, so I relished as much of the day as I could; it’ll be ten weeks till my life eases to this extent again. Serious rain this morning, so I didn’t make a morning run, … | Continue reading
Chilly, rainy morning run — I thought, about halfway through, that I might turn home and cut it short, but instead I forged ahead for the last three-quarters of a mile. This was a mistake; the rain… | Continue reading
Today is my first day back on duty at St Stephen’s House after months of sabbatical leave (first) and furlough (subsequently). It’s good to be back on duty, although it’s been more than six months … | Continue reading
Today is the last day of my summer leave + furlough; I resume work for St Stephen’s House tomorrow; Noughth Week begins with Sunday Mass. Morning run in more chilly drizzle, Morning Office, morning… | Continue reading
Chilly, drizzly morning run, Morning Office, morning Mass for St Michael and all angels, fruit breakfast, trip to Boots so that Margaret may obtain passport photos (she needs me to advise her on wh… | Continue reading
Chilly morning run, Morning Office, morning Mass, fruit breakfast, a little Legends to warm up for the day, then to the study to work on James. Or at least, that was my intent when I went to the st… | Continue reading
Another cold run this morning, with Morning Office, hot breakfast, morning Mass, a little time on Legends, a protracted exploration of rural Oxfordshire (in the abstract; Margaret is working on a j… | Continue reading
A very chilly morning run (5°), Morning Office, Morning Mass, hot breakfast, then banging away at James and miracles. Or, more to the point, a gallant attempt at a writing session; I went in to my … | Continue reading
No run this morning, of course, since I hadn’t brought along my trainers. Morning Office, pizza for breakfast, a brief visit to the Delias before catching our train back to Victoria (then the Oxfor… | Continue reading
No run this morning, as it was raining heavily when I woke up. Although the showers had abated a little later, by then I needed to get ready for morning Mass. Fruit breakfast, then packing up odds … | Continue reading
Morning run, Morning Office, Morning Mass, and a morning of concentrated writing about James. Wee break at midday for lunch and some Legends to clear my head, then back to James, and then some more… | Continue reading
Early run, Morning Office, Mass, fruit breakfast, and steady work on Legends, as I’m getting near the end of volume 2. I’ve hit the ‘Moses in Egypt’ section, and while the Twelve Patriarchs were li… | Continue reading
Up early, ran my mile-and-a-half, Morning Office, Mass for St Matthew’s Day, a lightning strike at the grocery, and a day’s struggle for productive labour toward organising my Michaelmas teaching, … | Continue reading
I don’t technically return to work for another week, but it’s time to begin whipping my teaching plans, and writing obligations, into shape. I was hoping for more clear guidance from the government… | Continue reading
David Weinberger used to emphasise the extent to which the internet (as it was) conveyed the sense of being a place. We should talk about that again some time — but the overwhelming feeling I get f… | Continue reading
This is a half year for Coronaposting for me, so it seems a good point at which to leave off the ’Rona-based titling. Things have changed, and they’re not done changing, and by the time anything se… | Continue reading
The temperatures were still warm this morning (12°, near optimum) at the time for my morning run. Then Morning Office, Mass, fruit breakfast, and to break up my concentration on Ambrose I strolled … | Continue reading