No. Not me. But J. McCreery has this habit of sharing multimedia links. And I'm _so_ for the written word. So it seems Taylor is not qualified? Course he is. Perhaps Walter O. was meaning that teaching religion at Colombia (none of my friends can pronounce Columbia) on dying does not qualify for 'research'. I find the topic of dying fascinating. More so than 'living'. Indeed, I don't think the two compare at all --! Cheers, JL ---- In a message dated 4/27/2009 8:37:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx writes: The more interestinjg question is whether Taylor has any clue as to the nature and conditions of university teaching and research. Given the description of Taylor at the end of the piece, this seems a curious question. Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia, is the author of the forthcoming “Field Notes From Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living.” John **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the web. Get the Radio Toolbar! (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html