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 the congregation I attended ever got to the point of getting the morning’s sermon on [...]
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.)
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 was a take-home exam, and our task therein was to write a letter to a [...]
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 relate to history as a philosophical category. “Only that entity which is ‘between’ birth and [...]
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 inadequate to the realities they purported to explain. ?This discussion might just remind you, O [...]
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 then; or can live authentically, ordering everyday life in the face of the not-being that [...]
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 and everything else swirling around, I haven’t had a chance to write about it. ?But [...]
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 (I was turning in my office key, having moved out), I had no idea why [...]
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 little article was interesting–it does give one pause to think that old Chuck himself was [...]
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 own home with my Emmanuel College office key. Let the one with ears to hear [...]
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 me now. If the title of the post is just too hard to resist, go [...]
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 place And threaten to consume My well-versed mask of competence: I cannot weep in crowded [...]
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 season of Galactica to hit Netflix. ?Now, a year later and several episodes sadder, I [...]
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 my composition syllabus. ?For now I’m not going to be doing my UGA routine, teaching [...]
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 years later. ?Hauerwas’s content is important, but people talk about him because of his style: [...]
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 me about his summer sitting on the back porch, polishing off a hundred pages an [...]
