It has been very hot here, which makes academic work difficult. Tuesday night on the streets people were sluggish. The heat makes life much harder, from the smell of garbage cans and bodies, to various degrees of de-hydration, to a drain of energy, to the difficulty of sleeping.

Just for the record, I'm working today on the 2000 word essay on "Sanctification" for the Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. I'm reading volume 1 of Gary Dorrien's The Making of American Liberal Theology as backdrop both for my articles on process theology and the postliberal book. I have Thomas Weinandy's book, Does God Change? with me, as well as Frank Matera's New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity and, to round things out, Beate Dignas and Kai Trampedach (eds), Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officieals from Homer to Heliodorus. Hopefully I'll have some time to post more as the days go on.