When I left the pastorate, I wasted no time finding another place to go to church. There is no piety in that. I would not have had the time nor energy to think about “setting an example” to the people to whom I had taught the value of community. I would not have had the will to go out of a sense of…

Emulating Socrates: I recently assigned an undergraduate class reading the Apology to consider Socrates’ manne... http://t.co/IIQklYWS0k

M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big and droopy and need a haircut. No soul would associate me with watercress sandwiches. Still, every year or so someone takes me aside and says, you actually are weirdly polite, aren’t you? And I always…

Terry Eagleton & religion - how theology raises foundational questions when positivist science has run away from them http://ow.ly/yD1bF

RT @ThomsonPat: I posted my publishing plan. http://t.co/exsRWdbion <— And I thought I was productive Pat!!

I've been reading some open theism posts the last week or so (see Greg Boyd's posts here and here and the ongoing discussions at the An Open Orthodoxy blog). I'd like to use this post to sketch out my views regarding open theology. My view is, I think, I unique view, a relational view of God that…

in research texts (articles, books and PhDs) In English the core building blocks of any intellectual or research argument are paragraphs. Each paragraphs should be a single unit of thought, a discrete package of ideas composed of closely linked sentences. The most generally applicable sequence to…

Why the humanities? "a society of free people, not simply one of well-compensated managers & employees" http://t.co/yLGyX3MExh HT @Colvinius

What a philosopher, certified insane, thinks about his doctors | Roman Krznaric http://t.co/4aswZHqWqT sounds like Marxism broke him tbh

John Hirst in @SatPaper speaks much sense about Labor's needed direction. http://t.co/NDxqPZCr0S

RT @CrisisMag: Porn is fundamentally anti-erotic, and it makes us unerotic. This certainly explains the failed male libido. http://t.co/vSThttp://ow.ly/w32qq

Long live the V60. I am not above $1 bodega coffee, or a Keurig single cup, or a cup of hot water and a teaspoon of instant grounds. But I do have two strong coffee influencers in my life — my younger brother Otillo who is a barista at Proud Mary’s in Melbourne — one of those legendary coffee or die…

doviende/Flickr “I’m just not a math person.” We hear it all the time. And we’ve had enough. Because we believe that the idea of “math people” is the most self-destructive idea in America today. The truth is, you probably are a math person, and by thinking otherwise, you are possibly hamstringing…

New post. Descartes and Frege: a Rationalist theme #Philosophy http://t.co/ufnPYWSF9T via @wordpressdotcom

This article is from Issue 66: November/December 2013 By October 17, 2013 Jonathan Martin is the lead pastor of Renovatus, a church for people under renovation in Charlotte, N.C., where he lives with his wife, Amanda. He holds degrees from Gardner-Webb University, the Pente... Read More Christianity…

Herman Cappelen interviewed by Richard Marshall. Herman Cappelen is mounting a fierce defence of his armchair against the crazyist gang over at X-phi – although he doesn’t want his counter-attack to be just about X-phi. He expects it to run and run. He writes about when language talks about…

Illustration by Kevin Cornell Consider the desk in your office. Maybe it reminds you of when you opened the box and put the pieces together. Or maybe it recalls your first day at work, when your colleague showed you where you would sit. The desk, the computer on top of it, the chair you sit in, and…

There is something relentlessly alluring about unearthing the private letters of luminaries — young Hemingway’s missives , the illustrated correspondence of beloved artist Edward Gorey, cultural icons’ letters to their 16-year-old selves, letters to children by 1970s luminaries on the love of books.…

RT @psychosyntax: An article about how influential Intro profs can be in determining a students' choice of major. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/12/study-finds-choice-major-most-influenced-quality-intro-professor …

Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? http://t.co/ItN9P9kRua The Age of #Endarkenment.

In which I write a love letter (to my own body) | Sarah Bessey http://t.co/IHRQUdBc

Monday 29 October 2012 6:27pm Share The sense of rolling crisis surrounding the Catholic Church occasioned by revelations of sexual abuse and concealment, along with the ongoing tensions over homosexuality within the Anglican Communion, provide an opportunity once more to reflect on our cultural…

“@ReKnewOrg: Greg continues his thoughts on the problem of OT violence http://t.co/RrlsoeNyZw” Can't wait to read more!

"Different sizes of mouths require a different technique in kissing." The Art of Kissing, 1936: http://t.co/hvwyxTTjs3 vía @brainpicker