Posted in theology on July 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
On July 9th, P. Andrew Sandlin, a theologian and cultural critic I hold in extremely high regard (his book New Flesh, New Earth truly transformed my faith) attacked “covenant renewal” folks on his blog, which would be basically your local Federal Vision dept., and pretty much all “high church” fellas.
He wrote,
Legalism in liturgy tends to […]
Posted in Shameless plugging on July 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, I am now officially back from my hiatus in Harry Potter country, far enriched and refreshed. So I plan for the blog to be back up and running like normal once again, for all three people who read it (haa ha ha ha, there are only two ).
For those who continue to be […]
Posted in Writing on July 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Don’t worry, I hate spoilers, so I’m not going to spoil you to anything that happens.
For J.K. Rowling, the release of the seventh Harry Potter book is very much a case of “That’s all, folks.” This is the last and final book in the Harry Potter saga, and what a series finale it is. After […]
Posted in culture on July 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Check out this video that I ran across on YouTube. Obviously it’s some sort of trick, but I sure can’t figure it out. This guy walks across the water of a swimming pool.
Posted in Federal Vision, theology on July 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Yes, I said I wasn’t going to post for two weeks or so. But this was just too funny to pass up on.
A Romanian fellow has filed a law suit against God (!) for breach of the contract God made with him via baptism. The Romanian is a murderer, and claims that due to his […]
Posted in Shameless plugging on July 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Alrighty folks, I’d like to apologize for not having as active a blog as usual this last week or so, and I’ve gotta warn you that the blog’s gonna be silent for the next two weeks or thereabouts (except for the occasional quotus), due primarily to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows […]
Posted in Writing on July 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Much of today’s so-called “literary” writing -coming out of modern MFA programs, published in literary journals, by literary presses or imprints - is weak on plot. It is assumed that the writing’s being well crafted, line by line, is enough; that if the sentences are pretty enough, plot is incidental. But since there is no […]
Posted in quotus on July 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Nothing is more fatal than the present fashion among intellectual leaders of extolling security at the expense of freedom. It is essential that we should re-learn frankly to face the fact that freedom can be had only at a price and that as individuals we must be prepared to make severe material sacrifice to preserve […]