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

Monday, September 01, 2014

5 Reasons to suspect Alternet doesn't really know much about Biblical scholarship

No one can bring the stupid (what else can I call it) like Alternet to Salon. Three topics excite excess commentary at Salon: Barack Obam...

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

"There is no safety here."

I read too many ignorant comments about how "progressive" Christians let fundamentalists define Christianity in America and yet...

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

In God We Trust (all others pay cash)

I'm interested in this not because of some sense of schadenfreude , but because it shows why the "traditional" church may se...

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Texas: It's like a whole 'nother country

Because when I was a kid, I thought this map was pretty damned accurate.... When the issue is Texas I'm more than a bit of a home-t...

The Engines of our Epistemology

I wonder sometimes if Dr. Lienhardt is trying slip a little subversion past us. Consider this episode of "Engines of our Ingenuity...

Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Awesome Power of Technology

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. So Richard Dawkins tweeted this : During a discussion with followers ove...

"Everybody look at what's goin' down...."

Part of the conversation on Diane Rehm's show this morning got around to the claim the Obama, being our first African-American Presi...

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Tellin' me I got to beware....

Enough of Rick Perry; the weekend is over. We re-start the week with one of Bill Moyers' favorite stories: One of my favorite stor...

It's not about the guns; it's always about the guns

I wasn't going to do this, but: One of the interesting issues with the Rick Perry indictment is the reaction to it. There's a...

Monday, August 18, 2014

What it is, ain't exactly clear....

If you look: at the pictures: what you notice: is a distinct lack of military equipment: Dogs, yes; but no camouflage, n...

One last thing

Because the facts about the Rick Perry indictment matter, and Rick Perry and his supporters/apologists won't mention these facts an...

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Rick Perry--The Run-It-Into-The-Ground

I'm following up on this because it's going to get interesting; and because we should remember that whatever is said in the court...

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Rick Perry--The Rundown

First, a nice encapsulation from the Dallas Morning News , a paper with an editorial policy that usually makes the WSJ editorial page lo...

Friday, August 15, 2014

Somethin's happenin' here...

Of the websites I generally follow/look in on (there aren't that many), Huffington Post had reports on Capt. Ronald Johnson and the...

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