Foolish Sage | October 31, 2009
Doctor, you say there are no halos
around the streetlights in Paris
and what I see is an aberration
caused by old age, an affliction.
I tell you it has taken me all my life
to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels,
to soften and blur and finally banish
the edges you regret I don’t see,
to learn that the [...]
Foolish Sage | October 9, 2009
This morning my wife went down to the kitchen to get some coffee when she spied the beauty in this picture right up against our kitchen window. It’s devouring an insect nearly as large as itself (one of our many carpenter bees, I suspect).
She got a number of other amazing, way-too-close-for-me shots which are posted [...]
Foolish Sage | October 9, 2009
I like being around [faith communities, churches]. I like being able to catch some of the energy, whatever I can or can’t believe. I think there’s something to be said for it. Despite the fact that most Christian denominations, politically, are about twenty million miles from where I want to be. ….If you’re into music, [...]
Foolish Sage | October 8, 2009
An old piece of folk wisdom says that if you don’t want to offend, there are two topics you never mention in polite company: politics and religion. Rock music has never much worried about polite company, and giving offense is often its raison d’etre. However, historically rock has far more often tread on the toes [...]
Foolish Sage | October 6, 2009
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a nut for Internet social media. Earlier this year I wrote about my social media evolution, chronicling how I’d moved along with each new wave of the growth of the social web, from chat rooms to forums to blogging to Facebook, Friendfeed and Twitter.
I started my first Twitter account [...]
Foolish Sage | October 4, 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 | October 3, 2009
This entry is part of a series, Manifold Witness by John Franke»
Hoping to put up another of my chapter-by-chapter interactions with Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth later today. In the meantime, I ran across a podcast interview with author John Franke about the book.
Entries in this series:John Franke’s Manifold Witness: Chapter 1Manifold [...]
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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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