I have been extremely busy the last few weeks and months working on several projects. As regular Mere-O readers know most of what I’m up to, I am now ready to announce the final piece to my extremely insane schedule. I am writing a book. It’s on a topic that I’ve hardly discussed here at [...]
Archive for September, 2005
September 15, 2005
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Skeptic’s Circle
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Outside Articles of Interest, Philosophy, TheologyJim has been hard at work putting together this week’s Skeptic Circle. While not normally a reader, I was led to it by my habitual reading of his blog. The presentation is ingenious–we’ve come to expect from that from Jim. It makes me wonder: what happened to Smarter than I? Found in the midst of [...]
September 15, 2005
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Out of the Chaos
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Outside Articles of Interest, SportsAs an avid reader of ESPN.com, I was interested to read this article on former University of Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel’s intent to rebuild the Desire Street Ministries, the non-profit ministry he left football to serve. Bill Curry, the author, is understandably impressed by him: When the kid quarterback won big games and a national [...]
September 15, 2005
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The New Craze in Advertising: “Bumvertising”
By Andrew Selby in Outside Articles of InterestSo this college grad in Seattle started a highly controversial marketing strategy called “Bumvertising.” I don’t want to give away too much of what it is, so you have to see the site. We had him on our company’s radio show today, a day after he was on Michael Medved’s show. Funny stuff.
September 14, 2005
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Pessimism and optimism
By Keith E. Buhler in Happy & Sad, Life in general, PhilosophyNickel Creek’s new album is a haunting and bitter portrait of a cynical twenty-something man experiencing “aporia,” that is, a sort of paralyzing disillusionment, with his wicked way of life. The music is to my taste, especially “Helena” and “Can’t Complain,” but the words (once I paid attention to them) describe the various inner worlds [...]
September 14, 2005
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More limitations of strict empiricism.
By Keith E. Buhler in Philosophy, Quotations“The problem of scientific research cannot be understood on the basis of scientific enquiry.” -Nietzsche, An attempt at self-criticism (1886) later preface to Birth of Tragedy
September 12, 2005
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Google never ceases to amaze
By Keith E. Buhler in News, TechnologyA new little feature, the recently upgraded Google Toolbar, now allows for instant translation, spell-checking, and instant image search. I’m a fan. What about Google’s privacy policies? Any opinions out there? From the little reading I did, I do not feel violated by their policies, but I’d be curious to hear from someone who has [...]
September 9, 2005
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The Excorcism of Emily Rose
By Keith E. Buhler in News, Outside Articles of InterestA new film you might want to know about… “Christianity Today magazine says: “Scott Derrickson, co-writer and director of the upcoming film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, says horror movies are an excellent way for a Christian filmmaker to address things of faith.” Scott Derrickson is a graduate of Biola’s film school and his feature [...]
September 8, 2005
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“Returning to School”, or “I Can’t Think of a Witty Title.”
By Matthew Lee Anderson in News, Outside Articles of InterestTorrey Academy, the program I teach full time for, begins in full next week. I’ll be teaching a full slate of classes–two “Inklings” classes, which are the introductory level classes, and two “Foundations of American Thought” classes, which is a second year class. Torrey Academy is loosely a “great books” program. Though not comprehensive, it [...]
September 7, 2005
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Tolkien Again
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Literature, NewsNo, I’m not going to resurrect the Bombadil discussion (see also here and here and here). The newsletter that I published it for has a new website, with all the essays. It’s a great looking site, and what’s more, available to anyone on the web! I’ll be looking forward to perusing the other articles on [...]
September 5, 2005
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Katrina Timeline
By Matthew Lee Anderson in America, PoliticsIn one of the most helpful posts since Katrina, Rick Moran has created a timeline of the responses to Katrina. Drawing mainly from the Times-Picayune website, Moran’s post is both helpful and illuminating. The biggest questions are twofold: (1) Did FEMA and the Fed’s actually do everything they promised, and (2) where was Nagin before [...]
September 3, 2005
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Jesus’ Meaning
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Outside Articles of Interest, Theology (Bible), Theology (Hermeneutics)Mere-O friend Rick Radcliffe recently wrote one of the most thorough and detailed explications and critiques of Marcus Borg’s Christology (as elucidated in The Meaning of Jesus that I’ve read. Of course, Dr. Borg’s apparent view is that the gospels cannot credibly record any supernatural explanations for events. For example, the virgin birth does not [...]