Dr. D.'s Blog

Dr. Dvorak

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

ETS and SBL

Made the long flight from Toronto to San Diego today for the ETS and SBL conferences. I present a paper (response to a book) on Thursday at ETS and then moderate a session on Sunday at SBL. Both are related to Biblical Greek and Linguistics. đŸ™‚ No...

The real value of AI

I have discovered the real value of AI:Yes, billions of dollars spent on making a daily dad joke machine! I'm now all in on this AI stuff!

MDC Chapel on Nov. 5, 2024

Here is the chapel talk I gave on Nov. 5 at McMaster Divinity College, in which I preached from the Letter of Jude in the New Testament—a short letter that suffers much neglect. I think its message is relevant in today's world (as is that of 2 Pet...

It's beginning to look a lot like...

I know, a lot of people squawk when they see Christmas deco going up before Thanksgiving. But remember, Canadian Thanksgiving was October 14th, so we're all good here. đŸ™‚

Started a new project

To be honest, I am not sure what this I am even making just yet, but it will be something made from this Black Walnut lumber from the Dvorak Farm in Iowa. Maybe a small table? Maybe another picture frame? Maybe another charcuterie board? Not sure....

Make the grains POP!

McMaster Divinity College, where I am VP Academic, is planning to have a fundraising auction. I volunteered to make a charcuterie board to be auctioned off. I made one from some Black Walnut that was harvested from the Dvorak farm in Iowa. My favo...

Control arms for the '08 Astra have arrived

Today would be a great day to work on the Astra since the weather is so nice, but I have other things to do. Also, I'll need to schedule an alignment so when I am finished replacing the control arms, I can take it to the shop to get that done. Tha...

Rollin, rollin, rollin...

This just happened on the '08 Saturn Astra...120,000 miles over 16 years is an average of 7500 miles per year. Not bad.Coming soon on the Astra...oil changetire rotationnew left and right front control armswheel (re-)alignmentKeep an eye on my YT ...

Happy Halloween!

We set some pumpkins out in front of our house. No need for us to get our hands messy carving them into scary jack-o-lanterns. The squirrels do that for us. I mean, does it get any scarier than this? We didn't think so, either.