I wanted to start doing the Robert M’Cheyne Bible reading plan this year. In it there is about 4 chapters per day, organized to have two from the Old Testament, and two from the New. There is an emphasis on reading the New Testament twice throughout the year. Here’s a PDF of M’Cheyne’s plan with some pros and cons mentioned at the start:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EL8rR56QBu1lJwgEVos9IiOuLgfLgEud/view?usp=sharing

No big deal – there are a lot of ways to keep track. Well, I’m the kind of guy I don’t want to have paper around, so I’d like to avoid printing something off. I also don’t want to install an app that doesn’t let me manage things precisely.

You guessed it! It’s time for a spreadsheet.

Unfortunately, the PDF above isn’t really conducive to importing into a spreadsheet. So I grabbed a PDF from this site: http://edginet.org/mcheyne/. Specifically, I grabbed from the Printables: http://edginet.org/mcheyne/printables.html

And I modified from there. The result? An Excel spreadsheet that has every reading in its own cell, every date in its own cell, and a checkmark box for progress tracking for each reading. It is reusable year after year, because the dates don’t mention a year or day of the week. (Feb 29 is an exception.) Feel free to download, copy, revise. Etc.

• Download spreadsheet: Bible Reading Plan by M’Cheyne, adapted from Edgington’s printables

• Also available, my google sheet, though many get confused about how to download it without asking for “edit” permissions

If you use it and like it, let me know. If you think there are mistakes or improvements to be made, please let me know. If you want to distribute it, please credit me and Ben Edgington (edginet.org).

(page last revised 2023-12-29)

ICBO 2019 : International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 2019

Poster: Using Stases to Enrich When and Where Regulations are in Force

Abstract: Using Stases to Enrich When and Where Regulations are in Force

Ontologies in OWL suffer limitations in time-indexing, yet these difficulties may be overcome with the use of the class ‘stasis’ in the Common Core Ontologies. The Informed Consent Ontology exemplifies an effective implementation of stases for tracking whether a biospecimen or informed consent process is subject to regulations in the relevant jurisdiction. Other OBO Foundry ontologies may be similarly improved by using stases.

I am a PhD student at the University of Buffalo working on the Problem of Universals. My focus is on the Early Modern period. This functions as a window into many other philosophical problems, including those of interest to a broader academic community, such as those found in applied ethics (e.g., biomedical ethics or professional ethics) and in applied ontology (e.g., a representation of what exists in, say, the relationships between paper documents and the information they contain or the obligations they prescribe).