League of Inveterate Poets

Foolish Sage | June 22, 2009

From Boston.com’s Big Picture feature (HT: Robert Scoble on FriendFeed). Click the link in the post below to see some of the most amazing pictures from the situation in Iran.

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Foolish Sage | June 21, 2009

I’ve been tagged by my friend JD on his Ad Fontes blog to come up with the five books (or scholars) who have most influenced me in how I read the Bible. (I’m returning to the narrower parsing of this meme given by its creator, biblioblogger Ken Brown.) Even after a seminary education, I’m not [...]

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Foolish Sage | June 18, 2009

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Foolish Sage | June 17, 2009

Image via Wikipedia No other song fragment in recent memory has gotten itself lodged in my head quite like the dramatic ending of the Killer song “All These Things That I’ve Done” (video). The words “I got soul, but I’m not a soldier” are chanted so powerfully that most people probably assume that’s the name [...]

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Foolish Sage | June 8, 2009

Cover via Amazon I’m home sick today (nasty head cold) and mostly lying in bed, listening to Eugene Peterson’s The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways that Jesus Is the Way on audio. Much of the book is striking me as a practical/pastoral meditation on the implications of the cruciform ethics laid out in [...]

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