Monthly Archives: June 2009

A Couple Philosophical Questions for the (more recent) Jesus Manifesto

Posted on 2009/06/26 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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The Home Stretch

Posted on 2009/06/25 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Dante 2009: Paradiso

Posted on 2009/06/20 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Gilmour Gazetteer

Posted on 2009/06/17 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Micah at Victory Field

Posted on 2009/06/16 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Not What we Teach but How we Teach

Posted on 2009/06/15 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Not the Teacher!

Posted on 2009/06/14 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Some Nietzsche for the Road

Posted on 2009/06/13 by ngilmour

Precocious Breakfast Conversation I’m driving all day today.? How much thought does that allow?

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On the Road Again

Posted on 2009/06/12 by ngilmour

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. … Continue reading →

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VBS Fatigue

Posted on 2009/06/11 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Brains and Minds

Posted on 2009/06/10 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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A Meeting with an Online Friend

Posted on 2009/06/09 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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On Killing and Abortion

Posted on 2009/06/08 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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How People Actually Become Atheists

Posted on 2009/06/07 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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The Most Interesting Man and an Early Prediction of Newspapers’ Doom

Posted on 2009/06/06 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Dante 2009: Purgatorio

Posted on 2009/06/05 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Atheist Capitalism vs. Atheist Liberalism on the Benefits of Religion

Posted on 2009/06/04 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Relevant Ed Back Up

Posted on 2009/06/03 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Some Dantean Thoughts from Internet Monk

Posted on 2009/06/02 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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Movies on Boys’ Week

Posted on 2009/06/01 by ngilmour

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 … Continue reading →

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