A Psalm for a Church that Might Have Been |
A Psalm for a Church that Might Have Been I will sing a new song unto the Lord of Hosts,Sing unto the blooming, buzzing busyness in which we live and move and have our being.I...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:44:00 GMT |
The Applicant |
The Applicant(by Sylvia Plath)First, are you our sort of person?Do you wearA glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,A brace or a hook,Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,Stitches to show something's missing...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:22:00 GMT |
The Great American Novel |
So, Christian music used to sound like this:i was born and raised an orphan in a land that once was free in a land that poured its love out on the moon and i grew up in the shadows of your silos fil...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:41:00 GMT |
Yes We Can |
I have read and learned a lot in the process of getting my doctorate in philosophy, but most of what I've learned are questions. I've learned interesting ways of asking questions, precise ways o...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:19:00 GMT |
A step-by-step guide to becoming a teacher in the Humanities |
Humanities is the art and/or science of figuring out what it is that makes us human. It encompasses a number of fields, usually including (but not limited to) the following: languages (including...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:45:00 GMT |
Summer Rain |
I was an English major in a former life. Some of the things I wrote at that time sucked more than others. The following is something I wrote that sucked less than most. At least, I t...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:19:00 GMT |
I would rather God be good than sovereign |
So the way good philosophy works is this: (1) A reflective person has an experience. (2) The reflective person reflects, and something about that experience either changes the person's beli...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:52:00 GMT |
Things I think I know about immortality |
How's that for a pretentious philosopher's subject line?As many of you probably know already if you know my wife and or myself, we experienced the deaths of two close relatives a couple of weeks ago, ...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:21:00 GMT |
Why the Despair? |
I saw something the other day I had never seen before--a blog with footnotes. I'm not going to go that far, but in that spirit, I start this entry with a long block quote. In "The Sentimen...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:48:00 GMT |
Blogging is false |
Let's get one thing straight--you're not meeting me by visiting a web page. You're meeting my representative. You've never met any person by visiting a web page. Ever. And I'm ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:26:00 GMT |
