Saturday, April 16, 2005

Bringing the Free Market to Iraq

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They aren't even trying to hide it now : Equipment plundered from dozens of sites in Saddam Hussein's vast complex for manufacturing...

Tradition is the living faith of the dead-Jarislav Pelican

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Every year, my local church has a symposium in the spring called At the Table and in Conversation. A topic is selected of relevance to our c...
Friday, April 15, 2005

Power is the new Golden Calf

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Dr. Frederick Hertzog was a long time systematic theology professor at Duke Divinity School and is one of the first to advocate and help def...

It is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the morning paper....

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Just to back up what left rev. said: As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Fri...

"An Atom Smasher for the Mind"

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To pick up on a thought that got started in the comments. (BTW--you can't imagine how much fun it is to open this blog and see something...
Thursday, April 14, 2005

Lets get Jesus back

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I may have a few more Eckhart posts floating around in the upper stories, but I thought I'd bring this article in the United Methodist R...

In the words of Bugs Bunny:

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" Of course you know, this means war !" Deflecting all questions about his ethical conduct and political future, Representative To...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Creation: A Flowing Out, But Remaining Within

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It is an amazing thing that something flows forth and nonetheless remains within. Words flow forth and yet remain within-that is certainly a...

"Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart"

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Why "do" theology? Why bother with this welter of words, this declaration of definitions, this cascade of concepts and avalanche o...
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Let Us Now Praise Canada

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No, seriously. Dragged out an old Linda Ronstadt album, "Heart Like A Wheel" (don't tell NYMary, she'll think I'm poac...

Radix einem omnium malorum est cupiditas

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This confirms my longheld opinion that the attacks on 9/11 were not made because "they hate our freedom:" Three men have been indi...

Consulo, ergo sum?

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I used to use the movie AI in my Intro Philosophy course, to introduce the question of the self and the issue of the Cartesian split. The ...
Monday, April 11, 2005

"Much study is a vexation."

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Philalethes passes this to me, and I don't really know what to do with it. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want t...

Woolgathering

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"The sense of the world must lie outside the world....in it no value exists..." Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus , §6.41. "A ma...

"Send in the Clowns

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There ought to be clowns." We have, it seems, reached a landmark of sorts. Since February, when the Site Meter was installed, Adventus ...
Sunday, April 10, 2005

"There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution. "

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Sarah Deere was kind enough to include this link in the comments to the post below. Since I used her comment at Eschaton to start a conversa...

Of Cupidity and cupiditas

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It's probably the places I hang out, but getting hounded about not being "Christian" because I don't lead the charge to p...

Jerusalem, by William Blake

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AND did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's ...

Third Sunday in Easter

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Psalm 116 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2. Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will ...
Saturday, April 09, 2005

The Long Emergency

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Sometime back , I mentioned that I'd seen the write up on this book. Now I find an excerpt from it at Rolling Stone . It's making th...