creaturely relations

“Of all the kinds of union or unity that exist for creatures, the union of believers with Christ is the highest. The greatest mystery of being is the mystery of the trinity – three persons in one God. The great mystery of godliness is the mystery of the incarnation, that the Son of God became [...]

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a tag attack

So I’ve been tagged by the poetic Mr Benedict Ambrose. I assume it doesn’t have to be interesting.
1. The rules of the game get posted on the beginning.
2. Each player answers the rules about himself [or indeed herself].
3. At the end of the post, the player tags five people and posts their names, then goes [...]

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maybe later

If I wasn’t both too skint and too immersed in writing, I’d be interested in getting hold of these books on language acquisition newly announced on the Linguist List.

Semantics in Acquisition, which seeks to apply formal semantics to language acquisition. I still have fond memories of (struggling to keep on top of) formal semantics and [...]

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when your h = 0 and f = 1

Interesting and useful fact of the week:
If you’re using d′ as a measure of discrimination sensitivity, and if you have small numbers of trials from which to calculate proportions of hits and false alarms, you are likely to end up trying to get z-transformations of 0 or 1, which means that d‘ is undefined.
There is [...]

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google censors christian advert

Yesterday the Christian Institute announced that its lawyers have contacted Google to remind them of their duties under the 2006 Equality Act.
Google has rejected an advert which would have referred readers to the Christian Institute for news and views on UK abortion-related legislation (currently, obviously, highly topical).
The reason they gave was their policy of finding [...]

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meta

The last time I met my supervisors, two awful things happened. One was that I was instructed to revise every single last piece of my results and run every single last statistical test on them all over again.
The other was that I was given exceedingly strict orders to do absolutely nothing apart from work on [...]

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he sanctioned the whole Jewish canon

In an article on inspiration, Girardeau incidentally makes this argument.
Our Saviour expressly acknowledged the divine authority and consequently the divine inspiration of the several books of the Jewish canon.
In the first place, he did this by his compendious distribution of the Old Testament Scriptures into the law of Moses, the prophets and the Psalms, in [...]

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cool new dashboard

Unexpected revamp of the WordPress dashboard – startling but much more intuitive.
This is a post with null content, just to prove that one post in a week isn’t beyond me, and in a valiant attempt to pretend I’m not, actually, living/breathing/sleeping gruesome statistics. The price you pay is a near-complete numbing of the old mental [...]

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