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 a [...]

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Foolish Sage | June 18, 2009

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Foolish Sage | June 17, 2009

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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 of the song [...]

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Foolish Sage | June 8, 2009

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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 a series [...]

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Tags: bible, church, eugene peterson, humanity, idolatry, love, reviews, the jesus way

Foolish Sage | June 6, 2009

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We live in an intricate web of relationships that comprises the visible and the invisible, and so we need words that at one and the same time designate what is immediate to us via our senses and also immediate to us by faith. Ours is the world of dirt and stone, roads and [...]

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Tags: christianity, eugene peterson, imagination, metaphor, the jesus way

Foolish Sage | June 4, 2009

If you’ve been following this blog for the past few months, you know that I have an intense interest in social media on the web. I’ve written a post on one of my company’s blogs (Three No-Brainers that are No-Shows on Facebook Pages for Internet Marketing) about some things that the recently updated Facebook [...]

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Foolish Sage | June 1, 2009

This second book in the massive Aubrey/Maturin series is a lot more character-driven and a little less action-driven than the exciting debut, Master & Commander. I have a feeling O’Brian was setting up the balance between suspenseful historical warfare narrative and intriguing relationship dynamics.
In Post Captain, O’Brian channels Jane Austen, setting up a love quadrangle [...]

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