Postcards from Palookaville

I confess to being quite overcome at the Rev. Anyabwile's offer to edit a Festschrift for me. I would, of course, be honoured to decline such; and, if he can tell me where and when it is to be presented, I will make sure that, at the last minute, I am unavoidably absent due to being called away to...

I confess to being quite overcome at the Rev. Anyabwile's offer to edit a Festschrift for me. I would, of course, be honoured to decline such; and, if he can tell me where and when it is to be presented, I will make sure that, at the last minute, I am unavoidably absent due to being called away to...

The amount and the strength of the pushback on my last few posts leads me to conclude that either (a) I am completely wrong on the matter of conferences (and being completely wrong is not without -- ahem -- precedent in my bio) or (b) I am absolutely right on target (that would be unprecedented,...

The amount and the strength of the pushback on my last few posts leads me to conclude that either (a) I am completely wrong on the matter of conferences (and being completely wrong is not without -- ahem -- precedent in my bio) or (b) I am absolutely right on target (that would be unprecedented,...

Thanks to Thabiti for his comments. I appreciate them, read them as frank and friendly, and offer these in like spirit. To deal with the last point first, and to engage in some self-justifying, self-serving, purely self-interested defensive boxing (hey, at least I am honest), the Clarus conference...

Thanks to Thabiti for his comments. I appreciate them, read them as frank and friendly, and offer these in like spirit. To deal with the last point first, and to engage in some self-justifying, self-serving, purely self-interested defensive boxing (hey, at least I am honest), the Clarus conference...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, I want to offer some radical suggestions for future megaconferences. I should say at the start - or rather reiterate, as I did say this yesterday - that I have mellowed in my view of such conferences over the years. Thus, I allow that conferences do offer great...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, I want to offer some radical suggestions for future megaconferences. I should say at the start - or rather reiterate, as I did say this yesterday - that I have mellowed in my view of such conferences over the years. Thus, I allow that conferences do offer great...

Thanks to Martin Foord for alerting me to this article on converts to Protestantism. Interesting and encouraging.

Thanks to Martin Foord for alerting me to this article on converts to Protestantism. Interesting and encouraging.