I’m a bad son

One of the original points of this blog, as suggested by its opening entry, was to post updates on Frogger’s progress. To this point, computer problems and my own laziness about taking pictures of anything have meant no posts of that sort. Here, then – the to this point ONLY picture taken of [...]

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Sixth Sunday in Easter

‘The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence… Whoever has approved this idea of order… will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.’
- T.S. Eliot
‘The past isn’t dead and [...]

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Wolterstorff on Calvin and the poor

Hoisted from the comments – er, comment (thanks, Mom) - following my last post on Wolterstorff:
Is therefore Calvinism not only reformation of the church, but also the social order, by nature and natural outpouring of the church’s reform?
In Wolterstorff’s fourth chapter he devotes some space to answering this question – or rather, to allowing Calvin and [...]

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The Image Ends and Kathryn O’Leary at Opus99

Recent craziness at work has reduced posting on this blog to a scant trickle; I’ve had little time to read and even less time to write about it.  That, hopefully, will be changing soon.
In the meantime, I’ll just point you to the myspace page of a couple artists I recently heard perform at Opus99 [1] (the [...]

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Fifth Sunday in Easter

‘The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.’
- Vaclav Havel
 
‘…[T]he heart of the matter is knowing whether evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it’s [...]

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Fourth Sunday in Easter

‘Out of love of humanity I am willing to admit that most of our actions are in accordance with duty; but, if we look closer at our thoughts and aspirations, we everywhere come upon the dear self, which is always salient, and it is this instead of the stern command of duty (which would often [...]

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Wolterstorff, Until Justice and Peace Embrace Ch. 1

Recently I’ve begun reading Nicholas Wolterstorff’s 1981 Kuyper Lectures Until Justice and Peace Embrace.  Wolterstorff begins with a brief historical investigation into two broad forms of Christianity, which may be respectively categorized as avertive and formative. To the former belongs the medieval tradition, with its thoroughly otherworldly outlook and its regard for the contemplative life [...]

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Third Sunday in Easter

‘[F]or many years I looked at life like a case at law, a series of proofs. When you’re young you prove how brave you are, or smart; then, what a good lover; then a good father; finally, how wise, or powerful… But underlying it all, I see now, there was a presumption. That I was [...]

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