logos redux

A friend put me on to Schoolhouse 2 the other day and I just got around to downloading it. This is free software for mac users that helps you keep track of all your school work over the course of the day, week, month, term, and even academic career. It allows you to manage assignments and projects, take notes that are stored in one place, attach links and files to assignments, and even keep track of your weighted grades. If it works as well as it looks like it will it’ll will be a huge timesaver.

They went to bed, as reason was and right,
For wives, albeit very holy things,
Are bound to suffer patiently at night
Such necessary pleasures as the King’s,
Or others’ who have wedded them with rings.
Her holiness - well, she must do without it
Just for a little, and that’s all about it.

From “The Man of Law’s Tale” in Neville Coghill’s translation of The Canterbury Tales. I guess this goes to show that the notion that sex is a dirty necessary evil has quite a pedigree from Augustine and the Patristics through Chaucer and right on up to our own time.

…I feel God has called [me] into the field of missions. I believe that one day, by the will of God, I will go to Africa… Through this experience I want people to know and remember me as someone who always followed God no matter where he led! Also, in the area of religion I want to be remembered as a great whiteness for Christ….

I was reading one of the papers written by one of my 9th graders when I came across this happily ironic misspelling. My response in the margin was:

Well, in Africa you might well be a great whiteness for Christ, but I imagine what you want to be remembered as is a witness.

[Update] The same student has just coined and repeatedly used the word Muslamic on a quiz I’m grading.

Allah: the Muslamic god.

I kind of like it.

These two videos, both linked from the Heather B. Armstrong’s blog Dooce (not necessarily suitable for kids) are hillarious. The first demonstrates conclusively the value of having children while living in Britain.

This one you’ll just have to watch. No introduction can do it justice.

Read this. Mark shows by example why it is that Reformed Christians, particularly pastors who are trying to preach the Bible accurately, really ought to pay attention to the insights and exegesis of those doing work on the NPP. Mark gives a great example of how the “traditional” way of preaching Romans 4 leads to either a contradiction, or a God who offers two different means of salvation.