Before I begin, I should be clear about what I’m writing about.? I do enjoy reading the left-leaning The Jesus Manifesto website, but that’s not what I’m talking about here.? (Incidentally, that site has done its own interrogation of Sweet and Viola.)? Instead I’m talking about the recent Jesus Manifesto by Sweet and Viola, which [...]
As far as I can tell, we’ll be headed back to Georgia either Saturday or Sunday, taking off early in the morning and driving until late at night.? It’s been a good two-week-and-change visit, a different sort than some previously because of Mary’s pregnancy and because we’ve spent the last seven days taking care of [...]
Now summer can proceed.? After brief delays on account of VBS and travel, I’ve finished this summer’s reading of Dante.? Once again, although Mark Musa is a professor and John Ciardi a poet, the latter still offers far better reading notes throughout, and I noticed things this time through that I hadn’t before. Those bits [...]
Yesterday we hit Winslow and Oakland City and Micah’s grandparents. Today Micah and the grandparents went to Chuck E Cheese while Mary and I took an afternoon to relax together. Tomorrow we hit the Indianapolis Children’s Museum. It’s been a good week.? I feel ready to hit the ground running when to Athens we return.
Yes, that is a boy with a baseball. And yes, it was a game ball.? After dozens of minor league baseball games, most of them in Indianapolis, I finally caught a foul ball.? And I did so over a UGA Ph.D in political science sitting in front of me.? Small world.
Teaching in the Twenty-First Century I always read First Things with a grain of salt, but if you can get past the reflexive right-handedness of this essay, you’ll read some good things.? The editor is right when he notes that criticism becomes a kind of nihilism when it becomes the end of education rather than [...]
How to Listen in Sunday School I figured this would be a good post to put up here on my first Sunday away from Athens Christian Church for a while.? I hope that I can heed its advice as I visit people’s congregations. I remember well that Dr. Norris at Emmanuel School of Religion taught [...]
Precocious Breakfast Conversation I’m driving all day today.? How much thought does that allow?
VBS ends tonight. We pack after that. We sleep a bit after that. Tomorrow morning we set out on GA-316, then I-85, then I-75, then I-24, then I-65, then I-465, then IN-267. Then a week with Grandma and Grandpa Gilmour. [edit: The subtext here, of course, is that I do intend to reply to comments [...]
My apologies to those who have commented in the last few days. As some of you know, I tend to write a handful of posts while I’m working the public library, scheduling one per day. I can’t do the same for comments, obviously. So this week, as VBS, VBS prep, and all the other things [...]
Can a Machine Change your Mind? I love discussions of mind and brain–they’re some of the sites of the most interesting philosophical work that I’ve seen. I took a History of Psychology class at Milligan, and as a young philosophy major, I thought I’d hit a vein of gold for reflection–every age that takes on [...]
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting up with Robert, who often ended up on the same side as mine when the forums at theooze.com got to brawling.? (No, he still hasn’t started writing that blog.) He had been in Atlanta for a conference, so after I dropped Micah off at school for the [...]
I’ve heard about but haven’t had much time to think about the recent murder of abortion doctor George Tiller. I know that “Pro-Life” personalities were quick to get in front of television cameras and denounce the crime, and something struck me as odd about that move, just as it always has. Halden Doerge, theo-blogger extraordinaire [...]
Another One Gets Off the Evangelical Bus I know I’ve been citing a lot of iMonk lately, but he’s had good things to write lately, so whaddyagonnado?? My post on the closest I ever got to atheism aside, Spencer is right that my kind of case, in which philosophical nihilism guts the Christian faith, is [...]
I don’t often watch beer ads, but when I do, they’ve got to be something like this: The billboard that goes with this ad campaign has been up on the Atlanta Highway in Athens for a while now, but it didn’t occur to me to search for it until I had a rather bored moment [...]
I’m gladder than I was before that I picked up the John Ciardi translation of the Comedy. ?For the first time I have some idea why Cato of Utica, who was a pre-Christian pagan (so he should at least have been in Limbo), a suicide (so he should have been in Hell with the other [...]
Free Market Faith I finished this article scratching my head.? The author is a British atheist and editor of the Economist, and his praises for the pragmatic benefits of religious pluralism fit nicely with that sort of free-market ideology: Consider the United States. It is both the most modern and one of the most religious [...]
Todd Baldwin and I started our Milligan careers with a lot of classes together as we embarked as fellow Bible majors.? Then I went for a Philosophy major and he for a Communications major.? Now I’m teaching English and Todd Social Studies.? Go figure. At any rate, after a long hiatus, his blog Relevant Ed [...]
On Being Too God-Centered I had reservations about iMonk the first few times I read him, but he’s grown on me, and the first time I downloaded his podcast and heard that Kentucky accent in my headphones (there’s really nothing that sounds quite like a Kentucky accent), I was a fan.? This post struck me [...]
Mary and I have been watching almost exclusively television series with our Netflix subscription the last couple years. ?We’ve done the entire runs of some HBO series, some network offerings, and all of Battlestar Galactica that Netflix has offered. ?(They’re unusually slow acquiring basic cable series.) ?The preference is sensible enough: by the time Micah [...]
