Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
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The Magic Wand of Jesus
Jun 17th
I love ancient art because it is so very often unkosher. For example, in some early Christian art, Jesus is often portrayed beardless and breast-full because using feminine physical traits were the only way artists could communicate certain attributes of Jesus. (I have seen the images before, but have yet to track down a digital [...]
An incredible vision of a common humanity
Jun 4th
I loved things like this as a kid. Even today, when I watch it with Reed, there is something powerful, something activated. It helps me realize our common worth and common heritage and that our ways need not be uniform to be meaningful.
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The Post-Industrial (Modern) Society
Apr 20th
Came across this quote today while doing some research:
The post-industrial society… is also a communal society in which the social unit is the community rather than the individual, and one has to achieve a social decision as against, simply, the sum total of individual decision which, when aggregated, end up as nightmares, on the mode [...]
Brunicafast of champions
Apr 13th
Working from home today. Fixed myself a nice 10:30 lunch/breakfast thing. Sliced fresh peppers, a orange, and some scrambled eggs to continue the day right.
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McKnight Reviews McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity
Mar 18th
I highly suggest heading over to Christianity Today and checking out Scot McKnight’s review of A New Kind of Christianity. It reads as a fair, but critical review[1] of McLaren’s work.
McKnight is critical of McLaren’s attempt to write a myth of Christianity’s Constantinian Fall and the creation of Theos. He does like, for the [...]
Something is a Batmobile if…
Mar 3rd
I got a little geeky today in class. First, I asked if we would all say something (I forget what). When the class was quiet, I said “So say we all?” They relied in unison “so say we all.” I then chuckled and offered bonus points for identifying the reference to “so say we all.”
No [...]
“Is” is terse.
Feb 20th
Is: it gets the job done with 4 fewer words than the average “can be seen as doing!”
Buy one today!
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Discovery Questions in Philosophy
Jan 15th
In my Intro class, I asked the students today to answer the following questions. I am keeping their replies until the end of the semester at which point I will have them re-answer them and then compare their answers.
1) Metaphysics: “Is a bale of hay still a bale of hay if you remove one straw? [...]
Thus was drawn the Übermensch
Jan 3rd
I came across this illustration today whilst thumbing through books for my upcoming philosophy class I’m teaching.
It is from Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne. It is a comic book of Western Philosophy from the early Greeks through Feminism and Post-Structuralism. I don’t have the freedom to assign any books I wish, but I [...]
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