One of my first posts was about the idea of the “paperless academic,” in which I decided that the Amazon Kindle was not quite the final answer for such a thing. I still think that’s true, but given the rave reviews over the months by people I respect I decided to give it a [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Going “paperless” and my new Kindle
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sermon: If A Child, Then Also An Heir
Posted in Biblical Interpretation, Sermons on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After I posted the sermon the other day, I remembered this older one that I rather like. It is from New Year’s Day, 2006, and focuses on Galatians 3:23-4:7. That should be it for sermons for a while, haha.
Sermon: “Dead or Alive”
Posted in Biblical Interpretation, Sermons on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is the text of the sermon I preached on June 15th, Father’s Day. The text is Genesis 21:8-21 and Romans 6:1-11.
“Dead or Alive”
Bryan Bibb
June 15, 2008
John Knox Presbyterian Church
Something I love about the Old Testament is that the people we meet there are so real, so true to life. I encourage you [...]
John Rutter. Requiem Aeternam (1985)
Posted in Music and the Bible, tagged classical music on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Rutter was born in London in 1945. He is a master of short choral pieces and carols, but his full length Requiem is also highly regarded among contemporary performers and audiences. Like Brahms and others before him, Rutter departs from the traditional liturgy of the “mass for the dead,” by integrating other texts into [...]
Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei Deus (1638)
Posted in Music and the Bible, tagged Bible, classical music on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
[This is the first in a series of entries on using music to teach the Bible. See category "Music and the Bible" on the sidebar.]
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) was born in Rome and spent his life from age nine singing in chapel choirs, beginning and ending his career at the Papal Chapel in the Vatican. [...]
Emerging technologies
Posted in Technology, tagged classroom, Technology on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been participating in a faculty workshop this week on course design viz. using technology to create learning communities. We have been talking about blogs, wikis, Google Docs, Moodle, Podcasting, Presentation software and VuVox, Twitter, etc.
The most important insight for me this week is that using technology in class is in the same [...]
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