Foolish Sage | August 11, 2010
I am. You are, if you are human (and I very much assume you are!). This blog (originally titled Sacred Journey) has been The League of Inveterate Poets for over a year now. I thought it was about time to revisit the origin and meaning of that strange name. It comes from an essay by [...]
Foolish Sage | March 7, 2010
An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible by Walter Brueggemann My rating: 5 of 5 stars Brueggemann forces us to unblinkingly confront the God actually presented in the Old Testament, not the God we wish was there via the colored glasses of our Western rationalistic theology. He shows us that the Israelite conception [...]
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. He [...]
Foolish Sage | August 26, 2009
I listen to a lot of podcasts, but over the past six months only one has consistently rated “must-never-ever-miss-an-episode”: WNYC’s RadioLab. Here’s the show’s self-description: Radiolab believes your ears are a portal to another world. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, [...]
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.
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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 stories that point to a bigger Story. Mark lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and pet Macbook Pro. He has two married daughters and six grandchildren, and works by day for Virante, an Internet Marketing firm.Proudly Powered by WordPress | Theme by The Cloisters | Entries RSS Comments RSS
