Monthly Archives: August 2009

Why Bother?

Posted on 2009/08/31 by ngilmour

The Multisite Phenomenom: Here to Stay? I’ll admit that there are moments when I can genuinely imagine throwing in the towel on traditional congregations and going house church, and this week’s Christian Standard reminded me of one of them.? If … Continue reading →

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First Day of Pre-K, Two Weeks Late

Posted on 2009/08/30 by ngilmour

Many apologies to grandparents and such–here’s the one happy picture I managed to capture of Micah’s first day of Pre-K. ?(He tends to start the day grumpy and improve.)

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Back to Heidegger part 5: Some Parting Thoughts

Posted on 2009/08/28 by ngilmour

Summary Post of Division One of Being and Time Division Two Posts Part 1: Being-Towards-Death Part 2: Resoluteness Part 3: Temporality Part 4: Historicality I remember well the final exam to my Ancient Greco-Roman Philosophy class at Milligan College. ?It … Continue reading →

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Back to Heidegger part 4: Historicality

Posted on 2009/08/27 by ngilmour

Once Heidegger has established anticipation (the engagement of particulars in the upcoming moment as a being having-been part of a robust world) as the character of authentic resoluteness, the next logical step is to talk about how that resoluteness might … Continue reading →

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Back to Heidegger Part 3: Temporality

Posted on 2009/08/26 by ngilmour

Some people, I realize, think that philosophy is an insidious pastime that makes muddy what was perfectly clear before. ?I happen to be one of those people who thinks that many of the schemata I once thought clear were actually … Continue reading →

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Back to Heidegger Part 2: Resoluteness

Posted on 2009/08/25 by ngilmour

So the nature of Dasein, that order of being that can say “there is a person called me,” is Being-towards-death, which can inauthentically pretend that one’s demise is simply an event among other events that doesn’t affect what happens until … Continue reading →

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Back to Heidegger Part 1: Being-towards-death

Posted on 2009/08/24 by ngilmour

Several months ago, I posted a five-part series discussing intersections of Division One of Heidegger’s Being and Time and Christian thought. ?Michial Farmer and I continued the book after that, finishing it up this summer, but with a new job … Continue reading →

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Book Review: What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?

Posted on 2009/08/21 by ngilmour

First, I send thanks over to Tripp Fuller for sending me a copy of this book.? It appears that being a HBC Deacon has its benefits. ?The funny thing is that, when I found it in my old TA mailbox … Continue reading →

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What would Darwin do?

Posted on 2009/08/18 by ngilmour

Must science declare a holy war on religion? — latimes.com. As with most controversial, cable-news-type questions, I’m not dogmatic enough in either direction to please the folks whose fight this really is.? Nonetheless, I thought that the ending of this … Continue reading →

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Ay ay ay…

Posted on 2009/08/17 by ngilmour

Why haven’t I been writing much here lately, you ask? I answer with a parable of sorts. Both Friday and today, when I got out of my car and headed inside, I tried to open the front door of my … Continue reading →

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I’ve Become a Twit

Posted on 2009/08/13 by ngilmour

First I should give some permissions: If I’ve made fun of Twitter in your presence, you can comment and make fun of me now. If I’ve made fun of you for using Twitter, you can comment and make fun of … Continue reading →

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Grandma Gilmour

Posted on 2009/08/12 by ngilmour

I know it’s not great poetry, but I miss you, Grandma. Because I knew when Death would stop My eyes refused to see Now days can pass without a thought But with no warning, misery Will sweep into a crowded … Continue reading →

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Battlestar Galactica‘s Boethian Satan

Posted on 2009/08/07 by ngilmour

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote one of my favorite posts here about Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica and the wildly different moral universes they set forth. ?By that time I had finished Sopranos but was waiting for the third … Continue reading →

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Keeping Things Going

Posted on 2009/08/06 by ngilmour

Day three of my professor career (I know I moved some stuff into the office earlier, but this is the third day that I’ve spent on campus, all day) is under way, and I’m still enjoying the task of re-creating … Continue reading →

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In Praise of a Dull Book

Posted on 2009/08/05 by ngilmour

My title will make more sense to those who have read some Stanley Hauerwas. ?His books were, as far as I can remember, my introduction to post-liberal theology, my encounters with John Howard Yoder and George Lindbeck and others coming … Continue reading →

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Back to the Office, Back to Rest

Posted on 2009/08/04 by ngilmour

August is the cruelest… no, I won’t start that way. I always dread a little bit coming back to the office after a long summer. ?Coming around the next corner, always, will be the colleague who is ready to tell … Continue reading →

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