Adventus

"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

And the people shall answer....

Regarding, again , the Beatitudes, I really should know these things, but then I don't make any real claims to being a scriptural schola...

Handwriting on the Wall

Regarding the World Bank from afar, it's hard to believe there isn't something intentional here, something more deliberate than erro...

Nowhere to Hide

This is a New York Times article , not an Op-Ed piece: For months, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and other governors have warned that the...

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Mysterium Liberationis

Following up on this post , NPR now has the audio up on an even better story about liberation theology in Brazil. Better not only because NP...

God's Funeral

has been postponed, as the announcement appears, once again, to have been premature. Dear old MadPriest (I think that's the properly Br...

Monday, May 07, 2007

"In the land of mankind, conceived as a pyramid..."

I was surprised to see a copy of the New York Times in Starbucks this morning, and was surprised (and gratified) to find out rumors of the d...

The True Decline of Civilization

This is what they did to "Star Wars," which was never that good to begin with: Spider-Man will return for at least three more mov...

Pray for Greenburg, Kansas

Give to the LORD, you heavenly beings, give to the LORD glory and might; Give to the LORD the glory due God's name. Bow down before the...

Sunday, May 06, 2007

28% Approval is Too High

AP Crouch and an unknown number of others among the 140,000-plus single parents in uniform fight a war on two fronts: For the nation they ar...

Friday, May 04, 2007

Like eating chocolate covered coffee beans

Stop when the trembling is uncontrollable: "If art serves 'to arouse feelings' is, perhaps, perceiving it with the senses to be...

Thoughts for the Morning

"If you offer a sacrifice and are pleased with yourself about it, both you and your sacrifice are cursed." "The edifice of yo...

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Biting the feed that hands me

As long as I'm griping about the internet, let me say a word against Google (my humble hosting service! Ha! Another blow for freedom f...

White Noise

or, "Why Going 'Meta-' Does Not Necessarily Mean Going Above the Fray." Jay Rosen makes an interesting point here , discus...

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Same as it ever was

I know I'm in danger of hammering on this point too hard and too long, but it is a hobbyhorse if only because bloggers sometimes write a...

Mayday! Mayday!

"Where your treasure is..."

According to the Congressional Research Service, the cost of the war in Iraq could soon top $564 billion . What could that kind of money buy...

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Habeas Schmabeus

I'm listening to this episode on This American Life right now. And trying to keep my blood pressure down. And wondering how hard it w...

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Said the Joker to the Thief

I didn't think it was possible to make the US experience in Vietnam look good, but somehow this Administration has managed it : The Unit...

Congratulations!

I've been wanting to come back to the topic of the Beatitudes . As I've said before , the Beatitudes can be understood as reversing ...

Friday, April 27, 2007

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers..."

The Justice Department wants to keep laywers out of Gitmo. Why? Because they promote violence, of course : Saying that visits by civilian la...

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