Mark Traphagen | 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 [...]
Mark Traphagen | November 3, 2009
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better. – J. K. Rowling (http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html – quoted in Harry Potter and Imagination: The Way Between Worlds by Travis Prinzi, p. iv.)
Mark Traphagen | 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 [...]
Mark Traphagen | February 28, 2009
According to Margie Haack, this is more than a recipe for her Lemon Dilled Rice: Lemon Dilled Rice (Serves 3-4) 1 cup rice 4 T. butter 1 small onion, diced 1 t. salt 2 t. dill weed (or 2 T. fresh dill, chopped) 2 c. water or chicken broth 1 lemon, juiced In a saucepan, [...]
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
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