Month: May 2009
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The Joy of Waiting
So often I hear the experience of waiting described as hell, as agony, as the most distressing aspect of getting to something. In the book I am reading right now, for example, the protagonist describes the moments before a cross country race as the worst part of his running experience, worse even than the pain…
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Reason, Faith and Revolution
I just had to share Stanley Fish’s latest entry over at NYTimes entitled “God Talk.” In it, he gives an overview of Terry Eagleton’s latest book, “Reason, Faith, and Revolution,” which seems to be a faithful Christian’s response to what Fish calls “the shallow arguments of school-yard atheists like Hitchens and Dawkins,” whom he refers to…
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I wish I May
So MAYYYY-be I haven’t been the most bloggerific or blogtastic of bloggers lately; I must admit that blogging hasn’t even really been on my radar screen lately. There has just been so much else to worry about–getting (or more realistically NOT) a job, finishing classes, trying to battle a pernicious tendency of mine to procrastinate…
Deeper in me than I 