The shape of righteousness
In the comments to a recent post Rob threw out a topic for discussion: "Deuteronomy 28: 15-68 The God of...

Wannabe psalmists
The other day when I was listening to the radio I happened to hear two songs about the problem of...

Work and play
Yesterday I finally met up with Telford at church, and as I suspected he's just been swamped with the move,...

Adventures in social science
There's been a lot of laughing and snorting lately directed at a Berkeley study that purports to identify the personality...

The feline invasion
So, while I've been wasting time writing about God around here, I know what you've all really wanted to know...

Vote your conscience
Florida will restore the voting rights of 125,000 felons. I have to say, this business of permanently depriving convicts of...

One love
I dropped out of the marriage discussion after a couple posts, but Lynn has gone on with a lot of...

Day in, day out
If anyone's wondering what's happened with the Jesus book, I still haven't been able to communicate with Telford. I thought...

Holy cow
All my life I've been eating dairy products by Clover Stornetta. Since I grew up about 30 miles south of...

So I'm not the only one
It felt too dorky to ask this, but now that Eve has blazed the trail, I feel emboldened to ask:...

More naming
Dash asked a question that I think other people have been wondering also: how do you pronounce my blog-name? Although...

Caroling softly the souls of slavery
Peter Nixon links to an interesting article about the Catholic Church's position on slavery over the centuries. The writer says...

By any other name
I didn't realize when I floated my lokayata idea that another blogger, Amaravati, pointed out the Sanskrit word adevin. Adevin,...

Interregnum
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I've been feeling lethargic about writing lately (maybe it's the heat), and what...

Home improvement
So after some friendly ribbing from Peter about the blankness of my blog ("It looks like a Quaker meeting hall"),...

Hero worship
I finally got to reading (or reading all of) Lynn's take on Telford's comments. It's as good as I expected,...

Mind games
At long last, this weekend I read Telford's comments on chapters 5 and 6 of the Jesus book. Back when...

Another Movable Typist
I'm a little late for this, but congratulations to Bill Allison for his spiffy new digs. Bill doesn't do a...

No new thing under the sun
In my comments to this post, David referred to an article by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, promoting the use of...

Yet more on the historical Jesus
Lynn has another post up responding to Telford's comments on chapters 5-6. She also comments on the exchange between Telford...

To die for, cont'd
(See part one of this post.) Wright also continues with the same approach he's been taking all along, which in...

That about sums it up
So we've had the Shorter Steven Den Beste, the Shorter Edward Said and the Shorter a lot of other people,...

Chapters 5-6: To die for
This part of The Meaning of Jesus deals with Jesus' conviction and execution. There are several points of interest in...

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
So I said on Monday I'd "get to" chapters 5 and 6 of the Jesus book, and I did get...

The marrying kind
Several people have responded to my post about privatizing marriage. Eve Tushnet writes: I worry that Camassia is falling into...

Talking to yourself
Since I posted my rules of commenting, a couple of people have asked me what a "sock puppet" is. That's...

Professors get together
Chris Bertram, Kieran Healy, Henry and Maria Farrell, and Brian Weatherson have formed a cool academic team blog called Crooked...

When theologians rampage
I finally reconnected with Telford this weekend -- he's sold his house and has a little more time on his...

The bonds of matrimony
Eve Tushnet is ticked off at Michael Kinsley for saying the state should get out of marriage. Her work at...

Cooler heads prevailing
Sorry my post yesterday was so snippy -- I violated the rule against posting while angry, but I really felt...

Laying down the law
All right -- in light of some recent goings-on in my comments, I think I'm going to have to create...

Updates
It looks like my visit count is going to crack 100 for the first time today, and a look at...

Scandalous
If you've ever wondered why God would reveal himself in the form of a guy born around 1 A.D. in...

Lookin' to fill that God-shaped hole
Still no word from Telford, but I got an email today that asked an interesting question: I am very curious...