LIT

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.
Bob

White Horse Inn

Great link to the audio archives of the White Horse Inn. Enjoy them while they are free. Good discussion by a group of solid Reformed theologs including Michael Horton.
http://resources.christianity.com/whitehorseinn/
Listen and we can blog.

Larry King and Religion

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/
Christianity is back in the news. I don't ever watch Larry King Live. However, tonight there was a segment on God, War, Anger, and Religion. I don't know if there will be a transcript of it, but I do recommend watching it if you are up late tonight. Dr. Albert Mohler faithfully professed that which is the stumbling block. There was a mystic, a Jew, a Catholic, and a Muslim scholar speaking foolishness.
murr

Something provocative from Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)
burr

Musical Awareness

Tired of the same ole same ole? Check out the music and video at http://www.wearephoenix.com/ under "Extras."

A few words about love

I am substituting at a local elementary school today. Caring for a boy who can't keep his balance because he doesn't have a cerebellum. Currently they gave me a break in the library and I am reading, and came across this interesting quote:

"In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary enough, as tempered in their pain as in their resolution of pain, the claim of exclusivity in love requires both a certain kind of courage and a good dose of delusion...
Those of us who claim exclusivity in love do so with a liar's courage: there are a hundred opportunities, thousands over the years, for a sense of falsehood to seep in, for all that we imagine as inevitable to become arbitrary, for our history together to reveal itself as only a matter of chance and happenstance, nothing irrepeatable, or irreplaceable, the circumstancial mingling of just one of the many million with just one more"
(Alice Mcdermott's Charming Billy p. 241).

Rabib,
I think it would be great if you could put up a link to your syllabi so we can see what kind of stuff you are reading in seminary.
Murr

The Question of God on PBS

10:30 tonight, on PBS, channel 22 for me, PBS is airing a special program called the Question of God, comparing the worldviews of Freud and Lewis. It is the first of a two part series, is based on a book by a Harvard guy and apparently gives Lewis a fair shake.
murr

Tyger, Tyger. burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye.
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, or what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat.
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? What the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp.
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger, Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
(William Blake, Songs of Experience) 

I'm In

I've got to go to spanish class in a few minutes, but I'm in on this whole blog thing

Scott

Murr - Let's Get it Started in Here

I don't know what kind of time you guys have on your hands, but here is a good article on law/gospel: http://home.christianity.com/local/48408.html Let's get the discussion started in here.

I have a proposition for all those interested in easy money. I can get you a job up here (just for the day) that will pay 200 bucks as an exit pollster at a school in d.c. on election day. Reply in the "comments" box if that sounds like a match for your job skills and salary requirements.
murrmurr

Hmm...sounds like a good match for my skills but not my spatial location.
~macey


i too am intrigued (sp?) by the possibility of extra-curricular cash flow, but like my chapfallen counterpart, I am unable to overcome the limitations of my locale. Geography was not a lady tonight...geography was a bastard. Speaking of geography, where are my pizza slices?
GNP > Sleuth