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The Christian Humanist Podcast- Episode 77: Great Book, Rotten Movie
- Episode 76.3: Red States and Blue States
- Episode 76.2: The Brothers Karamazov
- Episode 76.1: The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship
- Episode 76: Autobiography
- Episode 75: Ante-Dante
- Episode 74: The Documentary Hypothesis
- Episode 73: Patience
- Episode 72: Valor
- Episode 71: Humility
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
500 Visitors
In just under two months I’ve crested the 500 hits mark.? Hooray! I think the other site took about a year to hit 1000, so I have my readers to thank here.? I’ll keep writing, and I hope you keep … Continue reading
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Free to Do Otherwise
We wrapped up our textual discussion today, always a bummer.? I had forgotten that book five of Consolation was such a short one, but fortunately today also happens to be my class’s turn to do evaluations, so all worked out. … Continue reading
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Your One-stop Crapula Shop
One nice thing about WordPress blogs is that the on board software does hit count and referring links automatically.? I’m proud to say that somebody today linked to my blog after searching google.com for crapula. This site is a universal … Continue reading
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All Written Out
I’m going to have to pace myself. I’ve produced about ten pages of essays for Ryan’s and my upcoming project, and I’ve got presentation notes for my Religion and Postmodern Theory class this Thursday, and I wrote a 2000-word essay … Continue reading
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Adams Swings and Misses
I finally gave up this weekend on The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. I made it about a hundred pages in, and it’s just not as fun or as engaging as Adams’s better novels. I get the feeling that … Continue reading
Approved
The UGA English department’s graduate coordinator emailed me today, and they’ve approved my proposal for an exam in theology and literature. I would celebrate, but now I’ve committed myself to another four thousand or so pages of reading.? So I’m … Continue reading
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William Gibson versus Agrarianism: Who’s Doing Science Fiction?
I was grading papers in a chain bookstore’s coffee shop yesterday (too many of my stories start like this), and I saw that William Gibson has published a new novel, Spook Country. Right now I’m reading for comprehensive exams, or … Continue reading
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Sometimes I think Tom Tomorrow’s head is going to explode.
This weeks’ Modern World I’ll admit that I worry about what will happen to folks like Tom Tomorrow if, in about a year, more of the map (or at least a share of the parts of the map corresponding with … Continue reading
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Impostor Syndrome
“You’re not Fooling Anyone” The article is nothing spectacular; I heard about this phenomenon back in 2002 in my first semester of grad work in English, and I’ve experienced it periodically since.? On the one hand, when I compare myself … Continue reading
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Something or No-thing?
Such was our topic today as we finished book four of Consolation.? Boethius asserts ultimately that, because evil is a movement away from goodness/being/God and towards nothing, the result of all evil will be nothing, and thus there is no … Continue reading
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Nine Trillion and Counting
I heard on the news today that the national debt has crested the nine trillion dollar mark, a historic high. Nine trillion. I don’t doubt that much of it is going back (who knows when?) to the government of the … Continue reading
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Out of the Ooze, One Mo Time
Link to NavPress listing for Out of the Ooze I got an email from the publisher this morning promising swift delivery of my courtesy copy and asking me to link to their site. So there it is.
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Going to Evil School
I’ll admit that I didn’t do my best teaching today.? For whatever reason, I had trouble getting the discussion going in meaningful directions in either class, and although my students were saying good things, I didn’t do a very good … Continue reading
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Umami!
?I heard this fun bit on Morning Edition on my way to work: So here’s a question you don’t hear every day: How many tastes can a person taste? There’s sweet, of course. Then sour. Then salty. And when the … Continue reading
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The Ubiquity of the Now (or at most forty years ago)
Twenty Years Ago Today Mark Steyn notes the ubiquity of pop music on the twentieth anniversary of Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind: Most of us have prejudices: we may not like ballet or golf, but we don?t have … Continue reading
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New look
I was rather bummed last night to discover that my banner image had disappeared.? A blank rectangle above my posts just doesn’t look very nice. On the other hand, it provided a nice opportunity to spruce the place up.? I’ve … Continue reading
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Away from Message Boards, for Now: Addendum
Alright.? I should come clean.? I’m also losing interest in message boards because they eat up time and because I’m now just under seven months away from my target date for comprehensive exams.? I’m scared to death of those things.
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Away from Message Boards, for Now: Part 2
I ought to begin this post with some reasons that other people would find the Ooze a helpful and good place.? As I said before, the community there is very protective of intellectual and spiritual wanderers, and people who come … Continue reading
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Away from Message Boards, for Now: Part 1
As it turns out, I have something in common with Dan Edelen and Mike Clawson. I don’t know that either of them would welcome me into their fraternity, but here I am. My relationship with online message boards started not … Continue reading
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All Saints’ Day
I could tell that my 8:00 class is a pious group today; almost half of them missed class, no doubt for All Saints’ Day services.? And of the ones that did show up, half of them had their heads bowed … Continue reading
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