10/17/2011
No Guts
I'm sitting in a chair five steps from the famous United Methodist theologian Stanley Hauerwas. I don't have the guts to go over and say "hello." Part of it is that I don't want to bother him. Part of it is that asking a question of him seems like the kind of act that requires a lot more preliminary work than I have put in so far. I have questions for him, but I suspect the answers are already somewhere in his many books. I hope someday that if a young person sees me somewhere, and they have any desire to speak to me, that they take the opportunity. But I am too polite to presume that this is his approach as well. It was thrilling, however, to hear him speak and say things with such clarity that you almost never hear people say in polite conversation anymore. He spoke like a man fully alive.
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CSPAN's coverage of the national prayer breakfast. » 02/08/2012
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Alarming info about the cultural divide in the US from Charles Murray. » 01/25/2012
Lori S has a really balanced approach to that guy with the religion/Jesus video. » 01/23/2012
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interesting: how monogamy changed the world » 01/13/2012
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I have a lot of mixed feelings about this article at Cardus. » 12/17/2011
Digital Humanities: Scanner sees more in ancient documents » 12/07/2011
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Weezer covers Pumped Up Kicks » 12/02/2011
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"I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
-Saint Augustine
"Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been ... I'm interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it."
-David Blackwell