Friday, August 28, 2009

Do You Know What It Means?

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New Orleans is much in the news now. Something about anniversaries makes us pay a bit of attention; but not so much that anything gets done...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

"My death, is it possible?"

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Apparently the mere contemplation of that question with regard to healthcare is enough to send some people over the edge into gibbering madn...
Monday, August 24, 2009

The enemy of my enemy....

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The interesting thing about Pagels' thesis is that Satan is not the enemy who threatens us from without (a la Milton's Satan, in par...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Alas, poor Yorick!

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So, I read this , and my first thought was to wonder why C.S. Lewis and his ilk were/are so determined to find God's fingerprints somewh...
Monday, August 17, 2009

The handwriting on the wall?

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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Well, no, not really . What the linked document will tell you (i...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Who mourns for language games?

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No, I don't get frustrated by claims that Obama wants to establish "death panels" to rid us of costly seniors (whose real conc...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Memento Mori

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I read this book in seminary, and frankly haven't given much thought to it since. It may be that the current debate of "death pane...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Priests

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And all of you have seen the dance That God has kept from me.--Leonard Cohen The Archbishop of Canterbury roiled the waters in the Anglican ...

"The Struggle Continues"

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What she said: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy And many a truth is told in jest: The Daily Show ...
Monday, August 10, 2009

That's the signpost up ahead, your next stop....!

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So I spent my spare time during the 10 days out of town re-reading Kierkegaard's Works of Love . I happened upon the Strand bookstore i...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Of Jefferson and Wright

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I have been traveling, so I find myself returned full of piss and vinegar, as the saying goes; or perhaps it should be I'm relaxed and t...

You say you want an evolution, well you know, we all want to change the world....

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To the praises of this book , let me add: "Utter crap." Wright's thesis is plain first from the title: "Evolution"...
Saturday, August 08, 2009

Noticing "Hirsohima Day"

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A few days late, but still : Most Americans ever since have seen the destruction of the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as necessary a...

Not that anyone will notice my asking, but...

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Is America a country, or an idea? But as this escalates we should continually be stepping back and thinking retrospectively from the vantage...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

And furthermore.....

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What do I find interesting in the story of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? This: His next project on race, he said, will be rooted i...

"The Emotional Issue of Race in America"

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Offered to note the interesting shift of emphasis in the discussion of President Obama's response to the last question in his press conf...