Rod Martin takes me to task for my view on the Obama/Romney match-up here. I am sure I will have other things to say on that subject later, but something else came up in the course of his post that I should deal with first. In the course of dealing with the election issue, Martin …
God Is Who He Is
I am going to file this under Retractions, mostly because I don’t have a category called Complicated Retractions. This one has to do with the philosophical “schools of thought” called nominalism and realism. In brief, nominalism is the view that only particular things exist, with a general name (nomen) given to those particular things which …
Although the Same Point Remains
Over the years I have told (or written about) an anecdote involving Bishop Fulton Sheen and his editor, in an exchange over whether Heaven and Hell should be upper or lower case, with the bishop maintaining that they should be because “they’re places. You know, like Scarsdale.” Well, today, I ran across something that revealed …
Probably Really Good
For those following the recent blog posts, there has been a goodish bit of interaction on the subject of Eastern Orthodoxy here and here. It all began with a brief clip from CanonWIRED. In that clip I recommended a book on EO that I had not read — Through Western Eyes by Robert Letham. I …
Intergalactic Reptiles Had Nothing to Do With It
About three years ago I wrote an article entitled “Who You Gonna Believe? Me or Your Lying Eyes?” The article addressed the hyper-ness of all “connect-the-dots” conspiratorial thinking, along with my impression (I used the phrase “it seems plain to me”) that the New York 911 skyscrapers had been brought down by some form of …
More on the Psalm-Off
Okay, so here’s some clarification on the rules for the Psalm-Off. What we are looking for is contemporary arrangements and instrumentation that leave the lyrics whole and entire and the melody line basically intact. New arrangements of these melodies could alter rhythms or harmonies, but we would like it to be recognizably the same song …
Any Previous Garble
In Ephesians 6:4, fathers are told to bring up their children in the “nurture and admonition” of the Lord. This is all very well, and the words underlying this phrase are paideia and nouthesia. Back in the day, I used to say (in print and on audio tapes) that paideia was the word we rendered …
At Least I Didn”t Confuse Him With Rutherford B. Hayes
I just got my author’s copies of 5 Cities That Ruled the World today, and you should of course get your twelve copies now. But — and this is the way it frequently goes even while the printing press is cooling down — this is the time when errors are brought to one’s attention, waving …
He Was Actually Four
In a post a week or so ago — the one on a dragon in your heart — I misstated the age of the boy who asked the elders if they had read Beowulf. He was four at the time, not two. Mea culpa . . .
Mosquitos and HIV
In my recent book God Is, in the course of responding to a charge that non-acceptance of the HIV causation of AIDS amounted to malevolence or stupidity or both, I used the illustration of a latex condom stopping an HIV virus being like trying to stop a mosquito with a chain link fence (given the …