tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50777992011-12-14T23:33:50.681-03:30Notes from the West CoastBlomidonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14890388574529021825noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077799.post-31597125075282994882008-03-15T18:23:00.003-02:302008-03-15T18:33:16.100-02:30

On some cloudy, cold and windy days in March you begin to wish you could get on your bike and ride, or run on streets that aren't covered in ice, but then there are days like today.It was clear and sunny and only -5 and the X-country skiing was great at the Blowmedown trail. You then realize how great it is to glide along and get in your 20k, while enjoying the view, the animal tracks and the

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Visitors to Gros Morne in the summer months enjoy the view of Lobster Cove Lighthouse. For those who don't get that chance in the winter, here's what it looked like this weekend. It was -17 and very windy. We stayed at Gros Morne Cabins with a view out to the lighthouse. Apart from a few gulls, about 30 common goldeneyes were swimming and diving outside our window.

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When I heard that the Tour de France was going to start in England this year and go through my hometown of Dartford I had to go. I got to London to watch the riders arrive at Trafalgar Square for their introductions and stayed to watch the Prologue the next day with a million other people. Then on the first full day I stood on East Hill in Dartford and watched them come through. I then drove to

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I had hoped to say that I and a few other friends from Corner Brook had successfully completed the Cape Breton Fiddlers Marathon but mother nature won out. It was so windy that the porta-potties were blown over and the rain was causing poor visibility. The police advised the organisers that they should cancel the run. There was some disappointment but we did run the half marathon course when it

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Just learnt from an interview on George Stomboloupoulous' The Hour with Iron Maiden about their new release, that the lead singer, Bruce Dickinson, is a commercial pilot and he frequently flies the Humber Valley Resort charter from Gatwick to Deer Lake.

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We saw Shakira live at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last week. Here are some pictures from that show.

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Quite a few events kept people busy here this summer. The Cycle Solution Cycling Group sponsored criteria in Pasadena and Corner Brook and road races in Pasadena and Corner Brook and the very successful Tour de Port au Port 97 km race. The ITU had the last world cup Triathlon in Corner Brook for the time being. The following week we had the World Cup Duathlon. I was on the Canadian team and was

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Went back up (or down, as some prefer) the Northern Peninsula again last week and enjoyed the new production in the round of Tempting Providence in Cow Head. We stayed in the area for a couple of days and it brought back my conviction that there is nowhere to have what I would call a decent meal between Rocky Harbour and L'Anse aux Meadows. That's over 200 km.My daughter reinforced that view when

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David Maggs' creation; Earth to Human was a great success. One week travelling the Northern Peninsula viewing natural features, visiting historic sites, getting up close and personal with nature and staying in the best accomodation Western Newfoundland can offer gave guests and media representatives a chance to get to know this wonderful landscape and its people. Oh, and the music! David and the

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Just back from Peru with a lot of ideas and material. Flickr on the right just below here has my photos.Apart from telling people that I came to Peru to watch the World Cup; which I did quite frequently, I revisited some places and found some new things. The highlight was watching the sun rise on the Winter Solstice in the eye of the llama at Ollantaytambo.The next day I got up to Machu Piccu

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There's been a lot of publicity around National Geographic's publication of the Gospel of Judas. The commentary of the text is written by Bart Ehrman whose intro New Testament text I use in my classes. I was pleased to see him on the the Daily Show the other week talking about another of his books, the best selling Misquoting Jesus. How many authors of college text books get interviewed by Jon

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Radio ParadiseI can't recall whether it was John Gushue or RJ who first alerted me to Radio Paradise. It has a great eclectic selection of music. I listen to it more than the many music channels I have on Expressvu's Galaxie. This is a their playlist for the last hour or so:3:56 pm - Bob Marley - Running Away3:51 pm - The Wallflowers - God Says Nothing Back3:48 pm - Tom Petty - Refugee3:43 pm -

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CORNER BROOK ADVENTURE RACECongratulations to Peter Ollerhead of Cycle Solutions for a successful adventure race here on Saturday. Too bad no one from St. John's could make it. Hiking, paddling and mountain biking while looking for check points kept teams busy for over five hours. They all remained cheerful in spite of water crossings up to their knees and well "hidden" check points. The winning

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I ran the Cape Breton Fiddler's Marathon last Sunday. Great day and great course. I was right on my target at 21.5 km, but by the time I got to the Coast Guard College at 33km, I was losing it. Not physically, but in my head. I tried my old mindfulness trick of watching my breathing and then I tried concentrating on repeating my secret mantra (1,2,3 Hey its easy to remember!). But all I wanted to

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My book, The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul, has been reprinted in paperback by Cambridge University Press.You can buy it hereNewfoundland New TestamentDead Sea Scrolls

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I have a few Tibetan prayer flags in my office. They should be flying on top of a mountain. The Tibetan word for them is Lung Ta, literally "wind horse". A fellow MUN professor is flying her flags as she bicycles 1150 km across the Himalayas from Tibet to Nepal. TA Loeffler, a Human Kinetics and Recreation prof, is on her second adventure of the year. Earlier she climbed Mt. Dinali in Alaska. I

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i_05_s_her_1a Originally uploaded by MarkFitz. No commentevolution

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periodic table Originally uploaded by sburn01. Look what happens if the Intelligent Design protagonists get into chemistryintelligent design

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Thanks to John Gushue for alerting us to Religionfacts. At first glance the articles are worthwhile. I have recommended my students to use it for reference to basic facts about world religions. The link to related books on Amazon is very handy.ReligionJohn Gushue

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Keith Hebert paid a visit to my Spirituality and the Earth class on Thursday. Keith is driving across the country in his Smart Car to promote greater awareness in automobile fuel efficiency. In my lecture we were talking about John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club and the nature of wilderness. We asked what is wilderness for. this got us to talking about National Parks and their use by the

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Mark Goodacre reports on a development in Google Scholar Advanced Search:TJ Sondermann notes On Google Scholar that "scope" has been added to the Advanced Search page on Google Scholar:As Sondermann notes, you get a feel for how science-biased Google Scholar is, but the chance to limit the searches at least to "Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities" is an asset. And Google Scholar is getting

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Here's a great article by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne from the Guardian. It explains how accepting 'intelligent design' in science classrooms would have disastrous consequences. They include a nice summary of the real controversies in biology.Richard Dawkins evolution intelligent design

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Zach and GerryThe pictures and results are now up for this year's race. Thanks to Peter and Colin of Cycle Solutions (see link) and to Steve and Melissa at Spruce Pine Acres the major sponsors.CyclingNewfoundland

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Last evening the sky was perfectly clear and we had a great view of Jupiter and Venus. They were just a day past their conjunction and visble low in the sky just after sunset. Even though it was not fully dark Jupiter's moons were visible. Then at 2106 the International Space Station was visible for five minutes as it moved across the sky frm SW to NE. Check the link for what's visible at your

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John Gushue reprints an article by Graig Westcott of the St. John's newspaper The Express; "Why we Need the CBC". Because of the CBC lockout Westcott has been listening to local commercial stations. Among other things, he asks why commerial announcers have to sound like Americans and, like our local newspapers, use so many American sources. The American accent on the lips of Newfoundland radio

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Trinity Western University is a small (3,300 students) Christian liberal arts school in Langley, B.C. One of its religious studies profs has received a Canada Research Chair award of $1.4 million. I am interested in learning about this on two counts. One is that my own small institution is in the process of receiving a smaller tier 2 chair in economics. The other is that my PhD centred partly on

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A great article by Karen Armstrong in the New Zealand Mail and Guardian on how people use the Bible. Here are the first few paragraphs:Human beings, in nearly all cultures, have long engaged in a strange activity. They take a literary text, give it special status and attempt to live by its precepts. These texts are usually of considerable antiquity -- yet are expected to throw light on situations

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E. P. Sanders, who was my professor at MacMaster, has retired from Duke. He is arguably the top New Testament scholar of our time. I remember his huge collection of books that lined his spacious office at Mac. That was 25 years ago. I guess it's grown since then. I now don't feel so bad about "letting go" of some of my collection on EBay. I'm not ready to let the whole lot go yet. I guess Ed will

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On Saturday, the Blomidon Athletes, of which I am a humble member, won their third consecutive Race to the Sea running relay. It involves team members running eleven stages from Cape Anguille to Rose Blanche. The race starts at the lighthouse at Cape Anguille and passes by the lighthouses at Cape Ray and Channel-Port aux Basques finishing at the lighthouse at Rose Blanche. This year there were

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I get quite a few environmental science students in my Spirituality and the Earth course. I am always struck by their apparent lack of knowledge of natural history. They seem to know very little about local flora and fauna. I am presently reading Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. Louv deals with this issue. He blames the lack of

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I have been using this feature for some time. It is now available on the Canadian Amazon site. It enables you to literally thumb through the pages of a book , just as if you were in a bricks and mortar book store. Try it with the text I am using for my Introduction to the New Testament course The New Testament

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I mentioned The Tely Ten the other day. Well Jim King, who has taken a few courses from me, called me up the other day and asked what goes through my mind when I am running. When my students ask me what religion I am, I usually answer with; "When I am running I am a Buddhist". Here's what Jim wrote in The Humber LogEven 10 miles seems long By JIM KING, Going into overtimeThe Humber LogSometimes

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I was resetting my car radio after my return from St. John's when I found a new station which I suppose comes under the heading of Christian radio. (I've since discovered that it was VOAR )They were playing some pretty syrupy songs. Then on Saturday I caught a discussion about whether God allowed laughter in heaven, with one of the participants saying he couldn't wait to get there. Where are

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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide: Religion is the key to history, Lord Acton wrote. In today’s intellectual circles, however, it’s more like the skunk at the garden party. To many intellectuals, religion is a private matter at best, and most appropriately considered in terms of its functions rather than the significance of its beliefs, let alone its truth claims. At worst,

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The drive from here to St John's takes at least six hours, but usually longer. For the ride to St John's for the Tely Ten (see next post) we decided to take a break half way and stay at Joey Smallwood's home town of Gambo. I highly recommend The Freshwater Inn and Bistro. Great rooms and the food made it hard to believe we were still in Newfoundland.

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With 1600 others I ran the Tely Ten, a ten mile road race in St John's yesterday. I managed to knock 6 minutes of my last year's time with a time of 75 minutes. I was helped along with my Forerunner 301, which among other things told me my pace. It enabled me to keep my pace below 5mins/km.

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Inca ChildrenI met these kids while hiking in the Lares Valley near Machu Picchu, Peru. I was there in April working on a research project that looks at the way the ancient Incas moulded the natural landscape to express their religious beliefs.

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Do We Need Biblical Scholars - By Philip DaviesCan Biblical Scholars persuade others that they conduct a legitimate academic discipline? Until they do, can they convince anyone that they have something to offer to the intellectual life of the modern world? Indeed, I think many of us have to convince ourselves first!

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Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE On April 22, 2005, Harvard University's Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative (MBB) held a defining debate on the public discussion that began on January 16th with the public comments by Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, on sex differences between men and women and how they may relate to the careers of women in science. The debate at MBB, "The Gender of

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I have always been concerned with Richard Dawkin's form of atheism with his lack of appreciation of religion as an expression of human feelings. This article provides a different view from that of Dawkin.Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | The 21st century atheistCommentThe 21st century atheistNot believing in God is no excuse for being virulently anti-religious or naively

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Teaching and ResearchI have always struggled with the issue of "research". I was hired as a generalist with the recognised competance to teach in a variety of areas, from biblical studies to Indian religious history. I have added a few since then; one of my teaching interests now is religion and ecology. Teaching different aspects of religious studies, in many ways they are like different

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Anglican Church faces schism Canada and US to leave over stance on gays The Guardian reports that: The worldwide Anglican communion was heading for an unprecedented schism last night as its member churches in the US and Canada were asked to withdraw from intercommunal gatherings following the rift over homosexuality...In 2003, the US Episcopal Church (Ecusa) endorsed the election of an openly gay

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Humber Arm

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I've finally got round to reading the Da Vinci Code. The story lacks depth and reads like a movie script. That will save them a lot of trouble when they get Tom Hanks going. I was, like others who know a little about first century Judaism and Christianity, a little shocked about the way the author played fast and loose with scholarly consensus. I won't even touch the issue of the marriage between

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A break on the Blomidons Originally uploaded by blomidon.

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news@nature.com - Religion and Science: Buddhism on the brainThis article is one of many recently published that documents the link between Buddhism and brian science. One of the first things people discover when they meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama is that the head of Tibetan Buddhism likes a good laugh. "He jokes all the time," says Fred Gage, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for

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I plan to be teaching a course on Buddhism, meditation and psychology and shall be looking at studies such as these mentioned here: Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds (washingtonpost.com) By Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 3, 2005; Page A05 Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have

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Jewish scholar reviews concepts of the afterlife Paleo Judaica reports on a new book by Alan Segal that questions the traditional Chriatian views of views of the resurrecion. "Western religions that believe in a single god traditionally teach that after the present life, individuals will exist eternally in resurrected bodies. Eastern religions believe the soul is embodied in either human or

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Paleo Judaica reports that The Apocryphal Gospels are the subject of this popular article from Cox News Service. It summarizes some of the more outrageous episodes in them.

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Guardian Unlimited | How can religious people explain something like this?|Earthquakes led 18th-century thinkers to ask questions we shy away from. Martin Kettle The modern era flatters itself that human beings can now know and shape almost everything about the world. But an event like the Indonesian earthquake exposes much of this for the hubris that it is. Perhaps we have talked so much

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Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Exploding the Self-Esteem Myth -- Boosting people's sense of self-worth has become a national preoccupation. Yet surprisingly, researchshows that such efforts are of little value in fostering academic progress or preventing undesirable behavior.

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A test flikr image

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ENN News Story - Love nature? It's in our genes by David Suzuki. "The Human Genome Project revealed what many native people have always understood: We are genetically related to all other forms of life; they are our evolutionary kin. Viewed this way, our actions can no longer be driven by the perception of other species as "resources" but must be tempered by the recognition that they are our

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THE POLITICS OF CHRISTIANITY: A TALK WITH ELAINE PAGELS The kind of Christianity that pervades the religious right in this country divides the world between the saved and the damned, between God's people and Satan's people, between good and evil. We have all seen how this is played out in our politics. I used to think that President Bush was using this language as a political ploy. I still think

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THE JESUS SEMINAR AND THE PUBLIC Despite the unprecedented intellectual freedom enjoyed by those who study religion today, few biblical scholars admit publicly that they believe that parts of the gospels are unhistorical, and even fewer identify specific passages as such. The Jesus Seminar and The Public by Robert J. Miller

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The Atlantic | May 2003 | "I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell" | Judaism and Christianity were both once true religions, in the Muslim view. Superseded by Islam, they’re out of date, but not inherently false Bernard Lewis

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The Guardian | You don't need to believe in God to learn from religion.The common messages of Christianity, Judaism and Islam are too valuable to be ignored by Jonathan Freedland

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Call to Arms: Imagine if the Ku Klux Klan got total control of Texas and its oil and used the money to run KKK schools all over the world. It’s Saudi Arabia... (washingtonpost.com)

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A letter to George W. Bush from Michael Moore So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, '

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Guardian Unlimited Books | Pedants and partisans: Terry Eagleton argues that fundamentalism is characterised by a dangerous reverence for words There are two things desirable for fighting fundamentalists. The first is not to be one yourself. The US government's war on the movement is somewhat compromised by the fact that it is run by scripture-spouting fanatics for whom the sanctity of human

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The Atlantic | March 2003 | Kicking the Secularist Habit | Brooks

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Humanitarian consequences of an attack missing from Powell’s evidence by Ernie Regehr - Straight Goods

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The Genius of Blogging | The Observer

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Bringing in the Steves: Select group of scientists sign-up to support teaching evolution The Scientist

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Christianity Today Mormon Scholar Under Fire Anthropologist says Latter-day Saints' teaching wrong about Native Americans.

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Rolling Stones on tour with Wi-Fi globetechnology.com:

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In God he trusts - how George Bush infused the White House with a religious spirit Cabinet meetings start with prayers while speeches demonstrate the President's faith, but is all this adding to divisions with Europe? The Independant

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Australian IT - Welcome to bloggers world (Bernard Lane, FEBRUARY 13, 2003)

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CHURCHES CONFRONT BLAIR (Sky News ) Leaders of Britain's two main Christian churches have joined forces to challenge the Prime Minister over his claims that war on Iraq would be morally justified. The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Catholic Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy-O'Connor issued a joint statement expressing doubts about the "moral legitimacy" of the war. Tony

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