Monthly Archives: March 2009

Reflections on Being and Time 2: There’s the World, and then there’s the World

Posted on 2009/03/10 by ngilmour

Certain words have such broad ranges of connotations that they can inspire entirely different stories depending on who uses them.? Ask an environmentalist and an evangelical about “the world,” and you’ll get two very different answers, both of which will … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Being and Time 1: Why Heidegger?

Posted on 2009/03/09 by ngilmour

Since I’ve got no classes to teach this week, and since paper-grading and dissertation research don’t strike me as blog material, I’m going to do three posts on division one of Being and Time. For those who don’t know much … Continue reading →

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My New Dream Home

Posted on 2009/03/08 by ngilmour

People who know me know that I don’t think all that much about style, decoration, fashion, or any of those sorts of things.? I try to put on clean clothes every morning, and beyond that Mary makes such decisions. That … Continue reading →

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The Last Fact

Posted on 2009/03/07 by ngilmour

The Future! (Comics). It looks like the liberal Internet has deemed this meta-critique week, with Greenwald’s piece that I wrote about yesterday leaving the partisan battlefield to comment on journalism as a profession and this Tom Tomorrow cartoon noting the … Continue reading →

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Access Journalism and the Medium (or Media?) of Sycophants

Posted on 2009/03/06 by ngilmour

The Corruption of the Cocoon Like Binx Bolling in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer, one of my hobbies is to read both conservative and liberal texts.? (Because he’s a mid-twentieth-century novel character, he doesn’t do so on the Internet as I … Continue reading →

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Clapton, Shreddin’

Posted on 2009/03/05 by ngilmour

I just love this video. ?My brother Ryan sent me a link to one of StSanders’s dubbed-over guitar-solo clips a while ago, and I think this Clapton send-up is my favorite. ?In case you’re as slow as some of the … Continue reading →

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Pictures, as Promised

Posted on 2009/03/04 by ngilmour

My dear mother is one of my regular readers, and I promised her some days ago that there would be new Micah pictures.? So, to that end, here are two albums of recent ones: Micah's Birthday Party Snowstorm Georgia

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Geeking out on Old English

Posted on 2009/03/03 by ngilmour

I think I had too much fun in class today, and that fun came forth in a lesson that, in seventy-five minutes, covered about ten lines of poetry but diverged into textual histories, translation theory, multiple commercial breaks to pitch … Continue reading →

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AM Radio and Christian Catechesis

Posted on 2009/03/02 by ngilmour

How Radio Wrecks the Right As many of my readers no doubt know, I was for the period of a year and a half or so simultaneously a contributing writer for the blogs Christian Feminism and Conservative Reformed Mafia.? (The … Continue reading →

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Beer Gut Jesus or Girly Christ?

Posted on 2009/03/01 by ngilmour

Toughness and Manliness in Gospel Ministry Who[m] Can Mark Driscoll Worship? If nothing else, this post from Halden Doerge’s blog (the second link) is worth looking at just for the graphic next to the seventh paragraph, even if one must … Continue reading →

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