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Dr. Dvorak

Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade

[image credit: Wikimedia Commons; Original image public domain. Made 11:50, 14 June 2006] From the Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/1iP1MJU

I do, we do, you do

So, if you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m a college professor. My discipline is biblical studies and my area of speciality is biblical Greek and linguistics. I’m also an associate dean whose primary role focuses on providing ways for our faculty ...

Advice to beginning bloggers written by my friend

Not long ago, I asked my friend (and former teammate at OC’s North Institute for Teaching and Learning), Berlin Fang, to write a piece in which he talks about basic principles of blogging. He, himself, is a well-known blogger, for which he is quit...

Meetings : a haiku

another meeting sometimes seven in one day never get work done

Why I love Evernote Clearly

Why I love Evernote Clearly. [![Why I love Evernote Clearly: A Brief Demonstration](http://img.youtube.com/vi/btr5slDDfkY/1.jpg)](http://youtu.be/btr5slDDfkY)

Reader positioning

I don’t remember when, but at some point in the past few years, my Mom gave me a handful of children’s books from my childhood, so I could read them to my own kids. One of those books is Syd Hoff’s _The Littlest Leaguer_ (although mine was publish...

Consolidation and Clean-up

I am totally sold on the blogging app & host postach.io. I love blogging from within my favorite app of all time, Evernote. Postach.io has APIs in place to import from, say, Tumblr, but they’re still working on one that will allow me to import my ...

A few thoughts on Jude vv. 12–13

I could not for the life of me get this blog post to format the way I wanted to, so I put it into a Google Doc. Click here to view. You can also access it here.

Small but still woke us up

A M2.7 earthquake "bumped" our house this morning at 3:18 am. It was enough to wake us up.

Temptation

So the Broncos and Eagles are playing, but they're showing the Cowboys-Chargers game on TV. It is not possible for me to care any less about either of those teams (except I want them both to lose, which is not possible). Anyway, I am very tempt...