Resolutions

This week I’ll start sensible posting again, and continue my Jesus and the Eyewitnesses series. I just couldn’t be bothered tonight as I’ve been busy panickingly writing a paper for a lecture I’m giving this coming Monday at an NT colloquium in Tübingen. I’m developing my thoughts on 2 Cor 5:21 – tremendously interesting stuff, actually, just lots to do.

Anyway, have you made any New Year resolutions?

I have.

1. Get through a good chunk of Barth’s Church Dogmatics.
2. Smoke more (with a little bit of discipline this shouldn’t be too hard)
3. Perform a ‘prophetic dance’ at a Charismatic meeting. In a leotard.
4. Convince a German-language-only relative that the King James 1611 is the only inspired Bible.
5. Cultivate my left foot’s bacterial condition, especially the impressive colony under my toenails.
6. Finish most of my doctoral work, all of the Pauline exegesis, the analysis of Philo and the Similitudes of Enoch, and write a few articles to publish.
7. Make a squirrel soufflé at least once a month (it’s the hunt that makes picking out all the little bones worth it)
8. Write a number of book reviews for Chrisendom and thereby generate enthusiasm for theological study.
9. Read more of the classics of Pauline scholarship.
10. Loose about three chins, and discover my long hidden bone structure again.

What would your top ten be?