"The whole point of my argument so far is that the question of what happens to me after death is not the major, central, framing question that centuries of theological tradition have supposed. The New Testament, true to its Old Testament r
....go watch this over at Tripp's.Raise your hopeful voice.If you didn't see it, here are the acceptance speeches. Marketa Irglova's thank you was cut off by the orchestra, so Jon Stewart brought her back out so she could have her
I am obviously having technical difficulties. I can see my header with my blog name only in Firefox. I don't have the categories "widget" working. I have no idea what's going on. I don't like this new blo
Over at a blog that I just started reading and am enjoying, there was a contest for Ugliest Theologian. Pope Benedict won. Personally, I don't think he's ugly, but anyway, in the comments someone wrote:
Just started the book during lunch today and this made me laugh out loud: "Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was
For all my professions of love for The Wire, I've been watching it "On Demand" a day or two early in order that Sunday nights are free for all Jane Austen, all the time (Sundays at 8pm through April 6th).
I was at a church on Sunday morning giving a presentation for work - not my new church or my old one! - and the minister said in a prayer something about Jesus being "part human and part divine." After the prayer ended, I asked the pe
I forgot about this article in The Atlantic, which demonstrates how very personal the show is for David Simon.“I am someone who’s very angry with the political structure,” he said in a long 2006 interview with Slate. “The show
I think the reason why the Newsweek article bugged me so much is that I'm struggling with church and bringing Brigid to church. I've just about left my old Methodist church in town and started attending Church of Jesus Christ, Reconcile
Hello all, how time flies, etc. etc. I'm not really blogging again but I read this from Newsweek tonight and it's too horrible for me not to rant about.