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“Contemplation means ‘being’ with God within the reality of the present moment” “We don’t know how to be with your kidsWe don’t know how to be with ourselves.We don’t know how to be with God.” (from CYM) Especially with the advent of Information Technologies, we never know when or where we are. This goes back […]

So I’m about to start reading something that intersects with something I just read. Riding in the back of a friends car, I saw a book by Orson Scott Card, and asked about it. He said it was better than Ender’s Game (which is hard to believe), so I borrowed it, The Worthington Saga. The […]

(continued from yesterday) new war This new, and I am persuaded more important, battle lines are being drawn within the ranks of those who have already dismissed the modern project. These postmodern pragmatists, instead of rejecting truth and objectivity (which is the inversion of the modern project), argue that Truth is in the Objectivity. Or […]

Philosophy, Politics, and Critical Theory Philosophy “If the Lord is Risen, why can’t we see Him?” Badiou: Event, Truth, Subject Badiou on Heideggar on Truth Badiou on Truth and the (re)turn of Philosophy Theology’s Conversation Partners: Continental, Analytic, or Beyond? Ricoeur on Levinas: “Self” between the “I” and its overthrow Levinas’ Infinite Trauma Levinas on […]

Post on the Emerging Church “empty signifier vs. the empty shrine”: EC and American Political Discourse. (2) Emerging Church as “Empty Signifier”: Labels don’t fit because the container is Empty (1) Culmination-Culture, not Counter: of temporal refugees Lines of convergence: global-urban-postmodern

Series on Science Fiction, Ideology, and Theological Hermeutics Science Fiction Fridays: Weekly Series Science Fiction Fridays: C.S. Lewis on SciFi Why Star Trek is liberal ideology. SciFi and the Body

Objectivity and Truth: the new war (please forgive my militarist tone: i was sitting in the hot sun on vacationwhen I wrote this: although i’m uncertain about the correlation). below i present the new linking of ‘objectivity’ and ‘truth’ which pragmatist develop against foundationalist. But I think this new link is bad, and that truth […]

Jason Clark has this great post I just came across, on “The past of the Future: Why we live in the now.” Following something he read he argues that we are trapped in the ever present ‘now’, totally losing any sense of past or future. below is my response looking at it from the angle […]

Go over to Dan Kimball’s blog for a warning label for the Bible. It is all too true.

“It’s not about racism, it’s about law and order.”…a response to the immigration marches I read last month. Now of course the true debate around ‘illegal immigrants’ are neither that they are immigrants (concerning racism) nor that they are illegal (law and order). What this is all about really concern economics, not law or ethnicity. […]