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

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Texas our Hallowe'en Texas

Yeah, I know what it looks like.... but it's better than the video. Trust me. And if you want something really creepy for Hall...

"Hallowe'en"

Upon that night, when fairies light On Cassilis Downans dance, Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze, On sprightly coursers prance; Or f...

Friday, October 30, 2015

Closing out the week on the eve of All Hallow's Eve

Laughter is the best theology. Three weeks after the last sound was uttered (more or less) about the Pope's embrace of Kim Davis a...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Hallowe'en 2015

To be honest, the whole post is just an excuse for this gif. Again. I could just link to this ; the comments there are certainly worth...

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Putting the "Public" back in Public Theology

Would you buy a public theology from this man? This presents an interesting problem: who gets to say what theology is sound theology...

Monday, October 26, 2015

To the cloud!

"I believe in you." "I believe in God." Two statements that should say the same thing, but that couldn't be mo...

Saturday, October 24, 2015

The Old Masters

Is it Halloween yet? There is a strong tendency, especially on the intertoobs, to set everything up as an either/or, the better to be ...

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

"Sailin' away to sea....."

As long as they aren't brown, and don't bring clocks to school.... Now all we need is for Richard Dawkins to tweet something ab...

Stay irrelevant, my friends

At this point, I just like the picture. This is kind of interesting: While most reactions to the 13 conservative cardinals who sent...

Friday, October 16, 2015

It's the "Dismal Science" for a reason

Continuing my new habit of simply cribbing from everybody else (typing is hard!) combined with complaining about science via Charlie Pier...

Thursday, October 15, 2015

What Josh Marshall said

We been down this road once or twice before.... As long as I'm quoting/referring to what everybody else is saying: I chuckle a l...

Cleaning out the attic....

This is not the story I heard on NPR Monday morning, although the subject is the same (the linked story seems to be the only one availabl...

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Three times is the charm.....

Why is this man laughing? I was teaching my class about a kind of argument that, according to the textbook, needs to recognize that pe...

Brain droppings

I have to point out that the idea of continuity of the self being tied to memory originated with a philosopher (John Locke), and was cham...

Bang, you're dead

Nothin' a good guy with a gun can't solve. I'm not a big fan of imprisonment as a way to disincetivize behavior, so when D...

Musee des Beaux Arts

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someon...

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The grinning skull beneath the skin

"Death is the only experience of life that is not lived through."--Ludwig Wittgenstein I've written on this subject b...

Friday, October 09, 2015

Letting the days go by

Same as it ever was Current political issues are the least important and most ephemeral things in the world, and this blog should be ...

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