While I was in San Francisco…

Cambridge blows through snow removal budget
By Jillian Fennimore/Chronicle staff
Tue Jan 27, 2009, 05:00 PM EST
Cambridge – Since the winter season is showing no signs of slowing down, Cambridge’s snow and ice budget has already dried up.
Cambridge’s Public Works Commissioner Lisa Peterson said her crews have already used up the $350,000 for snow and ice removal [...]

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In which I link to pictures that are not of my son

I realize that

I haven’t posted pictures of Jacob in quite some time, nor have I updated any of the photo galleries linked to at right, and
this blog really serves little other useful purpose.

My apologies – certainly I should by now at least have posted Christmas pictures.  My only excuse is that my family and I [...]

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In which I admit to being dominated by 2666

Those of you who follow my shared items, posted in the sidebar just to the right (and heavens, why wouldn’t you?) have probably deduced that I’ve been reading 2666, the novel by Roberto Bolaño published in English at the end of last year.  Bolaño wrote poetry for most of his career before spending the last [...]

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Third Sunday after Epiphany

‘”Remember always, young man,” Father Paissy began, without preface, “that science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of the world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have [...]

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Ricardo Caballero is helpful

But then, I may just be biased towards anyone who can coherently bring Knightian uncertainty to bear on a discussion of the real world.
Here and here.  Oh, and here (sorry if you have to register, but in my opinion the Financial Times is actually worth it…).

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Theology and Social Theory, Ch. 1

Jonathan’s post on Chapter 1 of Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory is posted here, and my response is in the comments.  As before, I also reproduce his post and my reply below.
He writes:
In Milbank’s first chapter, he constructs a genealogy of the secular by narrating the course of its development from the thirteenth century, in [...]

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Second Sunday after Epiphany

‘Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan his work in vain;
God is his own interpreter and he will make it plain.’

- William Cowper

‘The alleged religious horror of limiting God by positive predicates is only the irreligious wish to know nothing more of God, to banish God from the mind.’

- Ludwig Feuerbach

‘A comprehended god is [...]

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If only the recession could have come before the Stata Center

Last Sunday Robert Campbell had an interesting story in the Boston Globe about the end of the so-called ‘Bilbao decade’, an era of decadent and iconic architecture named after the Spanish city which hosts the Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Gehry (who also designed the MIT campus monstrosity referenced in the title of this post).  [...]

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Note: Irony

Over at Faith and Theology, Ben Myers has posted advice for theological students:  ten steps to a brilliant career.  They are hilarious.  My personal favorites are six and seven:
6. Were you raised in a conservative Christian family? If so, your theological education provides you with the perfect opportunity for rebellion. The benefits of theological rebellion [...]

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First Sunday after Epiphany

‘[T]he real event of understanding… goes continually beyond what can be brought to the understanding of the other person’s words by methodological effort and critical self-control. It is true of every conversation that through it something different has come to be.’

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

‘To the extent that God’s revelation as such accomplishes what only God [...]

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