Daily Archives: February 7, 2012

Happy Birthday, Dickens!

Posted on February 7, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

Today is Charles Dickens’ birthday!  The only Dickens book that I have ever read is A Christmas Carol (see my write-ups on that here and here).  I watched movies for David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver … Continue reading →

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2/7/2012 Links

Posted on February 7, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I’ve got two awesome links for today! 1.  My friend Felix brought to my attention an excellent article on the late and great Jack Kemp.  Kemp was a conservative Republican who gave a rip about the urban poor and sought … Continue reading →

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Gnostics Who Knew Someone Who Knew…

Posted on February 7, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I started Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony.  I’ll start with something that Bauckham says on page 35: “…what concerns us here is not the fact but the model of transmission of Gospel traditions from … Continue reading →

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Nixon’s Civil Rights 7

Posted on February 7, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

For my write-up today on Dean Kotlowski’s Nixon’s Civil Rights, I’ll using as my starting point something Kotlowski says on pages 68-69: “Nixon, Ford, and Carter all confused ethnicity with race.  Preserving the ethnic purity of neighborhoods signaled more than … Continue reading →

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