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League of Inveterate Poets

The out-of-context contextuality of a foolish sage

LOST Finale? I’m With Iris Dement: “Let the Mystery Be”

Foolish Sage | May 24, 2010

Iris DeMent via last.fm I became a fan of Iris Dement after hearing her song “Our Town” used to close out the series finale of my favorite television series of all time, Northern Exposure. The song perfectly summed up what the series was really all about, why it continues to speak to me when I [...]

Manifold Witness: The Plurality of Truth by John Franke (Chapter 3)

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. He [...]

Shameless Self-Promotion Department: PublicLens Blog

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 [...]

Physical Beauty Is Sometimes the Most Deceptive of Contexts

Foolish Sage | April 14, 2009

“Don’t judge a book by its cover” goes the old saw. Last week three cynical judges and a huge audience at auditions for the UK’s Britain’s Got Talent TV series got a variation on that dictum: don’t judge talent by the body it comes in. Better: Don’t assume that personal worth and physical beauty are [...]

It’s All in How You Ask

Foolish Sage | March 13, 2009

“What’s on your mind?” That one little question signals the recognition of a sea change in the social media world. This past week Facebook rolled out another Facelift of the homepage seen by its subscribers. Among the many flashier changes, it would be easy to miss the one I think is most significant. To prompt [...]

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