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, February 28, 2013

Forces Antithetic

The title is completely useless, except I have reason to be in love with it, and no hope of ever releasing a record album. So, I just l...

Guns are f*ckin' dangerous, mkay?

Good thing this kind of accident can't possibly happen in the classroom, with kids around: At the conclusion of the CHL training o...

Thursday, February 21, 2013

People don't matter

only ideas matter. "My 24-year-old son Alex was murdered in a movie theater in Colorado," Caren Teves said, according to KTVK...

Monday, February 18, 2013

Prologue to getting underway....

I want to start this discussion, not with Bultmann, but with the Second Vatican Council. Granted, that's not the safest place for ...

Friday, February 15, 2013

Hat tip to Thought Criminal....

Bultmann is coming, but life keeps intervening. In the meantime.... They would do well to remember the words of Andrew Carnegie, t...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

So much for Lenten resolutions

Remington 750 semiautomatic hunting rifle. Remington's marketing material promises "super-fast cycling.... Rapid follow-ups are ...

Ash Wednesday 2013

Ash Wednesday just seems to be one of those days on which fresh words are a stain on silence; and old words can be a source of revelation, ...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Hammer time!

NPR reports the startling news that people who train their attention on a search for something, will often overlook other objects in ...

Friday, February 08, 2013

Giving Caesar what is....

So apparently this is a thing : More than 200 houses of worship damaged in Superstorm Sandy have applied for aid from the Federal Emerg...

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Because I watched the Super Bowl....

God Made A Factory Farmer - watch more funny videos

Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Rule Britannia

The news is that Great Britain has ( or almost has ) approved of same sex marriages. When I heard, I immediately wondered what the C of...

Meanwhile, back in the stacks....

Lent unofficially begins next Wednesday (I take as my authority Thomas Merton). I have often posted on Ash Wednesday , and I may do so th...

Monday, February 04, 2013

Gonna have to explain it to me....

Jimmie Lee Dykes had guns and, by all accounts, was acting "crazy" for some time before he kidnapped a 5 year old boy and hid...

Saturday, February 02, 2013

Don't you think?

Remington 750 semiautomatic hunting rifle. Remington's marketing material promises "super-fast cycling.... Rapid follow-ups are ...

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Meanwhile, in the agora....

Growing up around guns and owning them as an adult affords a person memories and experiences that strangers to guns may have trouble ...

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

It's The Best There Is

Remington 750 semiautomatic hunting rifle. Remington's marketing material promises "super-fast cycling.... Rapid follow-ups are ...

Monday, January 28, 2013

And who will write love songs for you?

Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government's confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If th...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Trampling on the grass

One of the interesting quandaries of First Presbyterian Church (and churches everywhere which worry about what their attendance figures m...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.