A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

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  • Pardon our dust

    Experimenting with a more minimalist look around here. I found a very minimalist WP theme I liked, but for some reason it didn’t allow block-quotes, which would make many of my posts downright confusing. This one-column theme is a compromise. Any thoughts? UPDATE: Decided to go back to the old tried-and-true format. Read more

  • We now return you to your (semi-) regularly scheduled blogging

    Alright–I think four weeks off was probably enough. I’ve been getting the blogging itch lately, so why make a big fuss about it? I’ve been enjoying Twitter, mostly as a kind of “mirco-blogging” platform to fire off quick links with a snippet of commentary (as opposed to mundane personal status updates more appropriate for Facebook). Read more

  • Comments

    The WP spam filter is usually pretty effective, but I’ve noticed a couple of legitimate comments being swept up in the dragnet recently. Looks like I’ll have to be a bit more vigilant. Thanks for your patience, esteemed readers! Read more

  • Blogs of Christmas past

    Since content will likely be light this coming week, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to offer up some representative posts from the previous four Decembers since I started blogging, as a kind of retrospective. (Note: some of these originally appeared on my first blog, “Verbum Ipsum,” but have been imported to WP; Read more

  • Housekeeping

    I’ve added a few new links to the blogroll, and removed a couple of others (mostly in cases where there has been no activity for several months or more; I will happily re-link should they become active again). In these days of RSS feeds, I’m not entirely sure what the proper function of a blogroll Read more

  • Meta-blog

    I’m still trying to figure out how to work regular blogging into my new, less flexible, schedule, as you may have noticed from the erratic posting. I’ve been shooting for posting a series of shorter posts once or twice during the week with maybe a longer essay on the weekends. I still haven’t quite figured Read more

  • I’m not dead yet

    Sorry for the absence of posting over the last couple of weeks. Lest anyone thought I was stuck in the hooscow somewhere in the Netherlands, I did make it back safe and sound from Germany (which was awesome). Life has intervened in the meantime, though: I’ve started a new job, gone on retreat with people Read more

  • Blogroll update

    Ever since I started using Google Reader I’ve been lazy about updating the blogroll here since one of its purposes was to help me keep track of the blogs I read regularly. But I’ve just done a little housecleaning and added a few links to blogs that I’ve added to my regular diet. Read more

  • Blast from the past

    I decided this clean break stuff is overrated so I’ve imported all the posts from the old blog over to here should anyone be interested in perusing them. If nothing else it’s more convenient to have it all in one place. Read more

  • Christian peace bloggers

    I’ve joined a “Christian Peace Bloggers” webring started by Michael Westmoreland-White of the Levellers blog. I think I properly fit into the catergory of “someone who believes war is a very last resort” and “that Christians are commanded to be working for peace so that such a resort doesn’t come.” In other words, I’m not Read more