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 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 [...]
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 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
Image by bradsearles via Flickr
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 | 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 [...]
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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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