I should have noticed when I read Lentricchia’s “Confessions of an Ex-Literary Critic” years ago, but I’ve realized recently why I can’t get on board, at least not all the way, with the various “hermeneutics of suspicion” movements: I’m just not jaded enough. Perhaps, years from now, when Chaucer and Shakespeare and Milton have said [...]
I just finished the second volume of N.T. Wright’s series Christian Origins and the Question of God, and Jesus and the Victory of God was just as great as the first volume. Wright engages and critiques many scholarly commonplaces and checks the excesses of post-deistic “orthodoxy” on his way to a picture of Jesus that [...]
It doesn’t seem like a week since we’ve been back in Georgia–the month of July just flew. Micah will be five months old in just over a week, and Mary and I will be back in our classrooms. On the reading front, I’ve got about fifteen cantos of Dante and a chapter of N.T. Wright [...]
The younger generation of the Burd grandchildren and great-grandchildren look on (kinda) for a University of Georgia apparel shot
Micah gears up for his first Cubs game on WGN radio with Uncle Ryan, Dad, and Grandpa Gilmour (he slept through it; the Cubs lost)
Tomorrow I preach my first sermon in two and a half years, load up the car, and take off for Indiana. I’m already realizing that this is going to be a catch-22; if Micah sleeps at night, he’s going to be awake and mad he’s in a car seat all day. If he sleeps in [...]
