I love language and culture. But language includes more than words; it includes gestures too. Yesterday I discovered that thumbing one’s nose at people is no longer part of our set of communicative gestures in the US. I assume it’s been replaced by the L, loser sign and the finger?

My philosophy studies son wants to know who Biblical scholars would substitute for Hegel…

Fun!!

Meanwhile, everyone else in the house:

I 💗 what I do. “Boy” (παις) can mean child or slave. Yesterday I looked to see if this was true of “little child” (παιδιον).

Yes, but rarely. I found it in the 5th and 4th c. BCE in Aristophanes, and also in 3 lists of slaves. These kinds of searches always feel like digging for buried treasure.

The other way would be to look at workers like this. Individual differences are gifts, and the decision about what is to be built is made only after leadership has a good idea about the uniquenesses available. Then, they (everyone?) decide what can best be built given all these parts.

Transactional leadership looks at workers like this. The leaders are building something. They have already decided what it is. They just need the parts, and the parts are more or less interchangeable and replaceable. In fact, anything unique about someone is annoying and should be made invisible.

John 4:22—"il sera surtout nécessaire d'examiner si Jésus, en s'exprimant au pluriel, s'identifie sans plus aux autres Juifs ... ou s'il faut plutôt joindre Jésus au groupe chrétien"

Twentieth century scholars can be

I should clean off my desk one of these days and give him a better napping space.

My daughter has decided to keep her 5 month old son’s image off of social media, and I absolutely respect that. You will all just have to take my word for it that he is the very cutest 5 month old ever. 💗

Played hookie on the last day of #SBLAAR with Doug because my sinuses can’t take the air conditioning anymore. Plus…why not?

She thinks I am going to share my sandwich. The window does open, so I am sure she has reason to think so! #sblaar2024

Today’s the day!
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