Hey @carinr.bsky.social, I wonder if you’d be willing to offer a few comments on how someone who studies classical languages can move from the study and reading of classic texts into the study of manuscripts and paleography. Any suggestions you have would be appreciated!

I don't have good resources for Greek paleography, but I seem to remember that somebody here on Bluesky does. Friends, if that's you, drop your links here!

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I don't know if I'm too sensitive or life is unbearable. — Vincent Van Gogh

Hey @carinr.bsky.social, I wonder if you’d be willing to offer a few comments on how someone who studies classical languages can move from the study and reading of classic texts into the study of manuscripts and paleography. Any suggestions you have would be appreciated!

NGL, I hate to say it quasi-visibly "on here" but John the Baptizer and Forerunner of the Lord, the Acts of the Apostles, and St Basil the Great, and among them the whole of early Christianity really throws "anyone can be rich" into great relief as . . . not a virtue and not a societal good.

Reminder, I'm still trying to raise support to help my family get out of this unsustainable cycle we're in. I appreciate any help. gofund.me/7825ce380

What do you do if you find a lightly-used misprint copy of Lampe from Oxford (not facsimile), for less than $100? You message the buyer no matter what. 😅

This kind of makes me wonder: how many folks in evangelical and other non-liturgical settings participate in baptismal vows? My baptism included the opportunity for personal testimony, but this was not the only aspect. I also renounced the devil, and pledged / united myself to Christ.

Questions I ask at the end of my latest short-piece on substack. scottdhendricks.substack.com/p/concerning...

What has your education and ability to learn and remember things hinged on, in your own experience and practice? How do you learn best, and what helps you learn most?

I'm writing a short essay on my Substack about how I discovered the desert fathers in college, and the importance of embracing wonder and surprise, and letting it catapult our faculty of learning.

N.B. — a stupid post of mine caught traction among my mutuals, and I'm trying to feverishly keep up with replies. If I reply to a reply not directed towards me, I'm sorry; I'm just doing my best.

Well, you don't *have* to, but I was like somewhere between 13-14 and I picked the Bible.

I'm writing a short essay on my Substack about how I discovered the desert fathers in college, and the importance of embracing wonder and surprise, and letting it catapult our faculty of learning.

Promptly, and unprompted at 7:55 — without any TVs around, at church camp — my son started singing the Final Jeopardy theme song. At a distanced I asked him, “What are you singing?” “Jeopardy!”

News — on vacation? God forbid I view it.

There is a new book about Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope

My most boomer-coded trait is not using Google as much or as early as I "should."

Note to all the criminals and unseemly folk, and also the people worried about me posting about going on vacay (lol), we are apparently not leaving town. But I am still on vacation.

That mad, clever dash to download all needed media in Wi-Fi before leaving for vacation . . .

Just had a thought: I would have liked to have read (some of) the Hart translation of the Dao De Jing while on vacation, but alas. Oh well. My book bag is packed.

Update: I think I fit 10 books in my satchel (handmade of leather). I made some compromises and the thickest books I’m taking are my copies of the old and new testaments. Everything else is like less than 300pp per book.

Trying to fit all my vacation reading into one satchel.

Noticeably absent from the Nicene Creed: the mention of ethnographies or demographics, words such as “love” or “house;” like I can’t think of a single thing in common with “those hideous signs” besides “we believe.” I am truly puzzled at the VP of the USA.

I told my 3-year-old son, “I need to stand in front of this fan, because I’m hot.” He said, “Yeah, I’m hot too. We’re two hot guys.” 🤣🤣🤣

Feed option where you can do more than merely turn off videos from playing automatically, but you can also opt out of all video ads and promotions. Give me that, Mr. Z.

Is it just me, or does the new Switchfoot album sound like proud rock from the early 2000s?

I am coming closer to a life less-tied to my gadgets. God help me.

Y’all. I thought I knew what an Orthobro was. Apparently I did not. A friend sent me a video today, and, dear reader, I was surprised to witness the embodiment of a stereotype, supposedly non-ironically.

12,000 East Mediterranean Artifacts Seized in US's Largest Antiquity Bust - GreekReporter.com greekreporter.com/2026/06/29/1...

All current HMML catalogers and curators contributed to a new exhibition, “Lost & Found in Translation." Co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Carnell and Rylie Owen, the exhibition explores the challenges of translation and the connections it fosters. View in-person and online: hmml.org/programs/exhibitions.

I’ve been at this current reading program for some time (on a two-ish week trial), and it just now occurs to me that I might do better trying to read longer sections of theology or philosophy in the early afternoon, and try to do my patristics devotions in the evening, followed by poetry.

Oh my dear, I am just this moment realizing how much I’ve missed spending time in a library.

👀 I am looking forward to some fine reading material.

www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2026/3/... Check it out!

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but pictures on the internet are overrated.

***Imaginary conversation between two theobros.*** “I bet you $20 you can’t guess what Karl Barth’s last lecture commented on.” “Does it have anything to do with the church and theology?”

I used to ‘send tweets’ to a cellphone data number before I had a smartphone.

There used to be just books and periodicals, no internet or Wikipedia. You used to go to a library reference section and browse 39-volume encyclopedias to begin your research.

Life before social media — I remember it fondly . . . I think?

Type of Anglophone reader of Plato who says “Efv-thee-fro” instead of “You-thi-frow.”

St. Gregory of Sinai, from: The Philokalia: the complete text, volume four. Trans. Palmer, Sherrard, Ware. London: 1995. Pp 237-238.

I didn’t have “Xfinity Mobile pays royalties to Ben Gibbard’s The Postal Service” on my bingo card; but here we are.

If you can give up on pre-tribulation rapture theory invented in the 19th century, you can give up your pious commitment to eternal conscious torment.

Can’t wait to get back to that interview between Rainn Wilson and David Bentley Hart.

No, BlueSky, I do not want to invite my contacts list to follow me here.

okay i looked at this timeline i don’t like it