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an experiment in out-of-context contextuality

Maggie’s First High Dive

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 [...]

You Might Be American…

Foolish Sage | July 3, 2009

In honor of the Fourth, a Twitter meme started by the always-funny @tremendousnews

The Power of Pixels: This Week in Iran

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.

Tagged: My 5 Most Influential Books on the Bible

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 [...]

Jesus Is Cool. But Some of His Followers….

Foolish Sage | June 18, 2009

I Got Soul But Never Served in the Military

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 [...]

To the Prophet, God and Neighbor Are Equal

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 [...]

Metaphor: The Indivisibility of Visible and Invisible

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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