New brief item bringing together a James Tabor video session on Hebrew Bible prophetic literature and an author interview for a history of American Liberal Protestantism at its strength in the last century.
Here’s a brief item to suggest a listen to livestream discussion about journalism and social media offered by the Reuters Institute a couple of weeks ago.
A brief item to say that I’ve been doing some new listening in recent weeks, thanks to YouTube, in Bible and near-east antiquity.

Another brief item, this one featuring the most recent chat from the YouTube channel of British student Simon Roper, in which he considers a turn in contemporary English many of us continue to love to hate.

Offering for consideration Vlad Vexler’s recent short YouTube presentation on Russia, Crimea, and construction of modern imperial genealogy in a new brief item.
A brief item to mention that I’m listening to the recording of a recent live interview with cartoonist Art Spiegelman, author/artist of Maus, conducted by his spouse of many years, New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly, at the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington building.