Foolish Sage | September 30, 2009
A quick congratulations to my wife for being recognized in a special post by Dr. Jim West on his blog. According to Biblioblog Top 50, Dr. West’s blog is month-in-month-out the most read and linked-to blog in the world of biblical studies blogging (biblioblogging, as they call it).
Dr. West came upon my wife’s biblioblog Boulders2Bits [...]
Foolish Sage | September 26, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Manifold Witness by John Franke»
This is one of a series of posts that will interact with the new book by John Franke, Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth. John Franke is The Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA. [...]
Foolish Sage | September 25, 2009
I invite my readers to check out my new humor blog, PublicLens (http://publiclens.blogspot.com).
PublicLens is a never ending parade of the bizarre, the beautiful, and the befuddling from that most ubiquitous of spies: the cell phone camera. The phone cam has created an explosion of imagery and made it available (in many cases) for all to [...]
Foolish Sage | September 23, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Manifold Witness by John Franke»
I’m beginning a series of posts that will interact with the new book by John Franke, Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth. John Franke is The Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA. He is [...]
Foolish Sage | September 12, 2009
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The first part of my review of David Bazan’s new album Curse Your Branches has been published by Precipice Magazine online (http://www.precipicemagazine.com/).
Read it here.
Foolish Sage | September 11, 2009
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The questions make new worlds possible. Like well-told jokes, they let the air in. We get to put questions to each other and the to the world we too often settle for. Question make a way where we often fear there is no way in our families, our neighborhoods, and in [...]
Foolish Sage | September 3, 2009
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While we’re often rewarded in life for playing at absolute confidence, the pretense and the mind games are corrosive to the possibility of community, friendship and redeeming love. Imagine letting go of the psychic burden of certainty. Imagine backing down from our imagined infallibility and assuming the mantle of a mere [...]
Foolish Sage | September 3, 2009
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey by Linda Greenlaw
My Goodreads rating: 3 of 5 stars
An interesting–if not quite gripping–true life account of a 30-day fishing expedition aboard a New England swordfishing boat. Main “hook” of this book is that the author-storyteller was the first successful female swordfish captain in that fleet. First-time author [...]
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Mark Traphagen (aka Foolish Sage) is a lover of dark beers and darker music, of things that are but are not as they seem, of contexts taken out of context to become new contexts, of resurrections and that which is already (but not yet). Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and currently freelances as an Internet marketer.
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