Monday, April 07, 2008

Irrationality is a force that gives us meaning

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I realize I've been down this road once or twice before (and I really need to go back and tag all the 2746 posts in this blog; maybe wh...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

The Engine of Hope

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Nothing was going to make me break my series this time . Then I went to the New York Times, and opened this op-ed by Taylor Branch : Many of...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Either/Or (#1 in a series...)

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Driving home the other day, find myself behind a pickup truck adorned with magnets on the tail gate reading (left to right): "Pray for ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

The Peacock Spreads His Fan

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I agree with Atrios: our public discourse is usually pretty stupid. That depends, though, on who gets to control the discourse; and while th...
Monday, March 31, 2008

"If there when Grace dances, I should dance."

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Starting with Auden to explain my purpose in quoting Derrida earlier . My interest was in the word "performative" that he used. ...

The Story of Isaac

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The door it opened slowly, My father he came in,was nine years old. And he stood so tall above me, His blue eyes they were shining And his v...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Oh, the prickilie bush!

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It is announced wherever, reflecting without flinching, a purely rational system of analysis brings the following paradox to light: that the...
Friday, March 28, 2008

A Shaker Song

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For no reason, other than that it came to mind this morning: I Will Bow and Be Simple I will bow and be simple, I will bow and be free, I wi...

Speaking of "Absence of Malice"

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Truth is stranger than fiction; harsher, too : Out of a two-hour conversation with you about Barack's spiritual journey and my protestin...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Absence of Malice

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So now its come to this, here in Houston. On Sunday March 30, Pastor Jeremiah was to guest preach at Wheeler Ave Baptist Church as he has do...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

"What we have here...is a failure...to communicate!"

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Geor3ge points us to this post from his brother's blog: A little over four years ago, while serving as a chaplain intern in a south sub...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter Monday 2008

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John Donne, courtesy of Grandmere Mimi: RESURRECTION, IMPERFECT. SLEEP, sleep, old sun, thou canst not have repass'd, As yet, the wound ...

Even when Fox Noise ties a pork chop around its neck

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America still won't play with it : The poll found that among registered voters, 25 percent said they had heard "a lot" about ...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter Evening 2008

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Isaiah 25:6-9 25:6 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich fo...