losing an hour :(

It would have been nice to reward myself with an early night tonight after working flat out all week, until it turned out it’s tonight the clocks go forward. So this is me signing out till Monday – have a beneficial Lord’s day one and all.

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hodge on 1:4

The Confession:
The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; and therefore it is to be received, because it is the word of God.
AA Hodge:
This section teaches the [...]

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worship with warrant

A typical worship service in my church goes something like this:

Call to worship (“Let us begin our worship…”)
Singing, a capella, some verses of the psalms
Prayer
Scripture reading
Another psalm singing
Sermon, expounding and applying some part of scripture
Another prayer
Another psalm singing
Benediction

Some aspects are less critical than others – it doesn’t really matter what order the praying and singing [...]

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just and no more

I made it onto my train home this morning by dint of a sprint which, shockingly, left me short of breath and wheezing pitifully for a good three quarters of an hour after. Other than teaching me not to rely too much for cachet among six year olds on claims of how fast I could [...]

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here’s the plan

I’m going to be away this weekend, not for Easter, Friday to Monday inclusive.
When I get back I’ll try and write something about some of the side issues left over from last week’s discussions.
Right now I’m immersed in stats and struggling. I console myself by considering that at least it’s not more marking of woeful [...]

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what speakers know

Working on a Saturday again. Contemplating linguistic knowledge:
Currently, the only theoretical framework that embeds indexicality centrally within phonological knowledge is the exemplar-based model of representation discussed by, amongst others, Goldinger (1997), Johnson (1997), Pisoni (1997), Pierrehumbert (2001, 2003a, b), Lachs, McMichael, and Pisoni (2003), Hawkins and Smith (2001), and Hawkins (2003). The exemplar model takes [...]

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Scottish age of consent non-consultation

** [Update: It appears from what I heard this evening that the consultation period may have been extended for another week. If you feel strongly about it and missed the Fri 14th deadline it can't do any harm to write.] ** 
Email from the Christian Institute this morning:
We discovered only yesterday that the Scottish Government [...]

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the basic mission

A little bit of phonology, to, I dunno, lighten the tone.
“The incommensurability between discrete and continuous time is surely one reason why linguists often consider most cognitive disciplines outside linguistics to be irrelevant (e.g. experimental psychology, neuroscience, and experimental phonetics). They may assume that these time-dependent fields can have no direct impact on language, a [...]

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the problem with pictures

According to the Westminster Larger Catechism, some of the things forbidden in the second commandment include:
“the making of any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature; all worshipping of it, or God in [...]

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retelling the story

According to media reports, the BBC is soon to air a dramatisation of the crucifixion of Jesus. The series will run throughout March, and according to an organisation called the Churches’ Media Council, “There’s no need to debate whether or not the Christian community should welcome this production or not.” They want the Christian community [...]

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