Foolish Sage | July 3, 2009
The definition of a “first” is that it never happens again. Was thankful today for iPhone 3GS video to capture one. (My granddaughter Maggie)
She balked once (got all the way up then came back down the ladder). Then a pep talk from her dad–including the promise we’d send mom, off shopping, a video right away–and [...]
Foolish Sage | July 3, 2009
In honor of the Fourth, a Twitter meme started by the always-funny @tremendousnews
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.
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 [...]
Foolish Sage | June 18, 2009
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 [...]
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 a series [...]
Foolish Sage | June 6, 2009
Cover via Amazon
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 [...]
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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