My essay on “The Missing Memory of Jehu: An Essay on the Preservation of Data Through Time” has been published by the SMU Digital Repository. This is an essay on the preservation of data through time. Regardless of media (oral, written, computer-based), data are preserved only temporarily on media and for the long term by copying. The article suggests specific principles that should consistently govern the copying and preservation of data. You can download the essay here: http://digitalrepository.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=theology_research This is free: this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This license provides that this distribution of “The Missing Memory of Jehu” may be copied freely so long as it is copied unaltered and is not distributed for profit.

I just sent in the manuscript of a new, short book tentatively entitled The Sky Is Falling, The Church Is Dying, and Other Malevolent Myths. First line as a teaser:

It’s a bummer to wake up in the morning and hear that you’re dead.

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