Gallery

Don’t worry; you’ll see plenty more pictures of Jacob here, but for those who can’t wait for me to get my act together and post them, I’ve set up a web gallery of pictures. Currently it doesn’t contain much more than what I’ve already put online; note, however, the ’subscribe’ option, which you can [...]

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Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

‘The task of God is to make science possible, and metaphysics will treat any God who shirks this responsibility as an illegal immigrant in the brave new world of modernity.’

- Merold Westphal

‘Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor [...]

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Still haven’t seen WALL-E

The planned to-do list for last Friday was as follows:
1. Work
2. Go buy video camera to capture birth and assorted first life moments of child.
3. Get out of the heat and enjoy one last trip to a movie theater with my wife (for a while, anyway) by watching WALL-E.
Of course, as you’re by now aware, [...]

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Jane Jacobs on the importance of diversity for maintaining city leadership

I may comment further on this quote in the future, and on its relevance for the pursuit by the Church of the welfare of the city – particularly when both the local church and the city in question consist to a substantial degree of transients.  For now I just post the quote, heartily recommend the [...]

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Working From Home

I was fortunate:  work slowed down enough just before Jacob was born that I’ve gotten to spend this week working from home.  Hard to imagine a better way to work than this:

(Of course, I do get distracted… oh well – back to work.)

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Nothing to Worry About

When I was in high school, my favorite TV show was Mad About You (note:  comment section below available for scorn and ridicule).  As was common practice in the mid-90s, its star, Paul Reiser, wrote a book (see also:  Seinlanguage).  Two books, in fact – Couplehood (funny stuff about dating and marriage) and then Babyhood [...]

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Jacob Warren Barczi

On Saturday morning, July 19, at 8:30am, Jacob Warren (aka Frogger) Barczi was born at Cambridge Hospital.  He weighed in at 8 pounds, 9.4 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.  He has a full head of hair, is a natural-born eater, and, in my humble opinion, is in all other ways simply perfect.  He’s amazingly [...]

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Tenth Sunday* after Pentecost

‘Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it… Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there [...]

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Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

‘The human dimensions of the Old Testament are to be duly appreciated, but it is supremely important that we understand in faith the Old Testament’s claim that God is its primary author. If we do, we will see the Old Testament as more than an anthology of various types of literature produced by a [...]

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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

‘Man was born free, but is everywhere in bondage.’
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
‘Humankind was created for communion, but is everywhere divided.’
- William T. Cavanaugh
‘For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, [...]

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