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Down at the old church that I work at we are having a conversation. It’s a theological conversation. It’s a crucial conversation. It’s the kind of conversation that people don’t seem to have very often. Who knows why?
After my long hiatus from Zoomtard I have decided that I am able to step into the mix [...]

Babette lent me Bulgakov’s Master And The Magarita a few months ago and I read it over Christmas. It tells the story of how Satan visits Moscow during the USSR and no one believes he exists.
Bulgakov was no Christian believer, although, unless I am mistaken he was the son of a theologian. During Stalin’s [...]

If the ever-excellent Scotteriology is right, Jesus lived in a limited-goods age. A limited-goods age is an era when there was an upper limit on the assets a society could accrue. Obviously, the means of production amongst Gallilean peasants wasn’t quite Teutonic back in the JC-day. As Scotteriology puts it, in a limited-goods culture:
if you [...]

As a teenager, I was addicted to Colors magazine and went to great lengths to get it. Now I am enjoying it online. You can too.
John Piper’s son seems to have a marvelous weblog that consists of entries only 22 words long.
Paris Je T’aime is a considerably less pretentious film than I feared. It’s [...]

Dubya’s recent comments, that in solidarity with the families of dead soldiers he gave up golf, not the Gulf, is surely the modern day equivalent of “let them eat cake”. Although he did actually say he gave up golf in solidarity, unlike Antoinette’s famous comment.
Just as worthy of your attention: A polaroid a day [...]

Although Charlie Bartlett is billed as a successor to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, we still went to see it. Of course no movie could follow Bueller. And Bartlett doesn’t. But it is amusing in its own way. And Robert Downey Jr. is a very handsome man. Ironman would probably have rocked a lot more if [...]

It got the wife-unit’s seal of approval and it is widely regarded as a modern classic and it has a lovely cover. So Kazuo Ishiguro got himself an audition and I decided to give it a whirl. It’s a very fine book. It’s hard to Zoom it because I don’t want to give it away. [...]

I know you think I am stupid. But maybe I am just smart enough to blog up against Peter Singer. Peter Singer, for those of you who don’t know, is the Zinedine Zidane of philosophy. Sure, he’s old. But his elegance has made him a legend. Plus, in the same way that Zidane secured eternal [...]

I think three times in the last couple of months I have heard teenagers butcher “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen. There is something about this travesty that captures for me why I hate adolescents.
Give me children up until the age of 12 and I will love them. They will love me. We’ll bond. [...]