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

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Let there be light....instead of punditry

Speaking of who justice is done for, or to ; I will be glad when the Trayvon Martin case gets into a courtroom, and is tried according to ru...

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Follow the $$$$$

I should walk away from this, but let's be honest (and any honest pastor would agree with me), this: Xavier University, one of the oldes...

Sunday, April 01, 2012

Palm Sunday 2012

Hosanna, hey-sanna, sanna sanna ho, Sanna hey, sanna hosanna! Hey JC, JC, you're all right by me! Sanna hey, sanna ho, Superstar!

Boundaries

Simone Weil: "Christianity should contain all vocations without exception since it is catholic. In consequence the Church should also....

Friday, March 30, 2012

"Let justice roll down like waters...."

Fred Clark makes an interesting point , to which I would just add: there isn't a whole lot of punishing going on in the Hebrew Scriptu...

People are No Damned Good!

I wasn't going to write about this but I find it hard not to use my tiny platform to raise a peep of protest. Have we gone completely ma...

Thursday, March 29, 2012

History is Bunk

When I was at UT Austin many, many moons ago, the biggest controversy in the Deadly Toxin was the cartoon strip "Eyebeam." Sam Hur...

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Still regarding Trayvon Martin....

As I drove in just now, Talk of the Nation was discussing the Trayvon Martin case, and much ado was made by some callers about hoodies , to...

Monday, March 26, 2012

These things that pass for knowledge....

The joke at my UCC seminary was about the graduate who came to face his ecclesiastical council in order to be ordained, and confessed that, ...

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Meanwhile, back in Florida....

This is why George Zimmerman has not yet been arrested: (1) A person who uses force as permitted in s. 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 i...

Friday, March 23, 2012

God Botherers and their Discontents

NPR woke me up this morning telling me tomorrow would be "Woodstock for Atheists," and my first thought was: "Who cares?...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Regarding the shooting of Trayvon Martin

Here's what we know: Zimmerman told the police he was in his truck, stepped out of it to check the name of the street he was on, and th...

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Hunger Games

I'm gonna use Athenae to do it: put in my $.02 on The Hunger Games. First, I'm excited by the trailer, as it appears to be a pictu...

Friday, March 09, 2012

The Arc of the Universe is long....

It's not that I disagree fundamentally with Dr. King's observation about the telos of the universe. But I teach Greek tragedy about...

Monday, February 27, 2012

The Illiberal Case for Redefining Marriage

I saved this from what is now eight years ago (or so), because I was intrigued by it, and because I knew Don Browning's work. It's...

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Open the doors....

Not that TPM has a smaller readership than this place (any smaller and I wouldn't even read it!), but this is interesting. To paraphras...

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