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The coming weeks
In the coming weeks, I plan to fulfill some reading goals for myself. Prior to the celebration day, I’ll be reading The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning...
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A few more
I forgot a few. In the same vein as the two other New England-focused texts, I am desiring to re-read Edmund S. Morgan’s The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop. Morgan was Miller’s protégé. I...
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Excerpt from Philosophical Foundations For a Christian Worldview
Finally, it is not just scholars and ministers who will benefit from training in philosophy, but also laypeople who need to be intellectually engaged if our culture is to be effectively reformed. Our...
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Another drink
René Descartes is sitting in a bar. The bartender asks him if he’d like another drink. He says, “I think not” — and vanishes. via Futility Closet
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Identity pt. I
At the moment, I am eating a sprinkle-y cake donut from Voodoo Donuts and drinking a Jubelale. I just had some rye whiskey, and I have been reading a friend’s old blog posts – one on a conversation he...
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Goethe aphorism
Individuality seems to be Nature’s whole aim – and she cares nothing for individuals. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
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At the hands of the fires of perfectionism
While reading a very good and admirably honest autobiography – with the author describing in great detail his most vivid experiences as a young man – I was struck with the realization that I have...
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The authors William Faulkner consistently returned to
Unidentified participant: Sir, when you are reading for your own pleasure, which authors do you consistently return to? William Faulkner: The ones I came to love when I was eighteen, nineteen, twenty...
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Distortion as an instrument
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man’s encounter with this God is how he shall make the experience—which is both natural and supernatural—understandable, and credible, to his...
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Excerpt from Hills Like White Elephants
The girl stood up and walked to the end of the station. Across, on the other side, were fields of grain and trees along the banks of the Ebro. Far away, beyond the river, were mountains. The shadow of...
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Jean Renoir on how the Grand Illusion came about
Taken from a seminar conducted on April 14, 1970, at the American Film Institute. This interview with the legendary French director, Jean Renoir, explored–among other things–the origin of one of his...
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In anticipation of Thanksgiving Day
I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs...
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Augustine’s prayer of thanksgiving
My God, in my thanksgiving I want to recall and confess your mercies over me. Let my bones be penetrated by your love (Ps. 85:13) and say, ‘Lord who is like you?’ (PS. 34:10). ‘You have broken my...
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