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• Leggo My Lego

  

  Given my proclivity to seek the profound in what is often considered the banal, I have been mulling over The Lego Movie. Before you cast the first brick, yes,... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Epistemic Epistemology

  

  I’ve been thinking about thinking, if you’ll pardon my meta. More to the point, I’ve been thinking about what happens to thinking when it becomes writing. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Refuge in Diversity

  

  The Easton Saturday morning farmer’s market is a happening place. Daring to spend a non-raining Saturday away from mowing, my wife and I decided to check it out. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Q

  

  If you haven’t spent much of your precious time attending to theories of how the gospels were written, you might not be familiar with the dilemma I’m about to... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Evil Origins

  

  I remember well the eerie, uncanny feeling I had as a child reading Genesis 6.1-4. This wasn’t a story we heard in Sunday School, and it wasn’t in any children’... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Not from Nazareth

  

  The world just doesn’t feel safe any more. I’d better give a little context as to why. You see, I just learned that what I thought was the work of carpenter ant... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Trees and Cities

  

  Some years ago I decided I’d read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I had no idea what it was about, but I’d heard cultural references to it over the years. So I decide... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Idol Thoughts

  

  The Enlightenment led, in some respects, to a condescending view of the past. Historians know, for example, that the basics of science and engineering predate... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Fear of Religions

  

  There’s a narrative of fear in Christianity that seems to have been absent at the beginning. This is evident when driving the highways of America where you’ll... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Night of the Living

  

  The New Yorker view of the world, so the joke goes, sees the five boroughs in great details, then a very thin New Jersey across the Hudson with a vague... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Iron Ages

  

  I find myself in Pittsburgh again. We set out from the former steel city of Bethlehem and ended up in the former steel city on the other side of the state. I’m... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Cool Cash

  

  The seller’s market is the place to be in a capitalist society. Last year, when we were looking for a house, it was a seller’s market. Our realtor said he’d... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Rock Solid

  

  Old interests don’t die so much as they become sublimated. As a child I picked up a cheap “gem display” in a small cardboard box at a yard sale, probably for a... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Wag the Book

  

  I was pulling together a bibliography, you know, like one does, when I realized just how outdated the usual formats are. Particularly the trinity invoked at... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Mere Humanities

  

  Categories, while necessary, can be troubling things. One place to see this clearly is in academia, which is itself a category. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Thunder Towers

  

  It sounded like brontide. The Martin Tower, the tallest in the Lehigh Valley and once corporate center for Bethlehem Steel came down yesterday morning. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Revisiting Mesopotamia

  

  As a refresher on my own ancient history, I picked up Tammi J. Schneider’s An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion. This was one of those books that... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Drowning in Words

  

  One of the features of this blog, which as inclined more lately toward books of all sorts rather than simply religion, is that I only write one post per book... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• Price of Learning

  

  Holy Horror, as some are painfully aware, is priced at $45. Even those of us in publishing have lessons we must learn, and one of them is that writing a trade... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY

• The Heart of Publishing

  

  My heart goes out to academic authors. It really does. They labor over a book important to their field and see it come out costing near triple digits and... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2019 POLITICS, RELIGION, SOCIETY