A Thinking Reed

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

Links

  • Some links for the weekend

    – Peter Singer on balancing concern for the environment with efforts to lift people out of poverty. – Kevin Drum on the difference between liberals and libertarians. – Bob Herbert on Sargent Shriver: “one of America’s great good men.” – Peter Berger’s blog at The American Interest. (Here’s a piece on recent developments in American Read more

  • Friday links

    – The new(ish) blog Women in Theology has been quite active lately, with recent posts on John Milbank and Stanley Hauerwas garnering a lot of discussion. – Scu at Critical Animal writes on books that have changed the way he thinks. And here’s the post that inspired his post. – Jeremy recently had a good Read more

  • Cop-out blogging

    Stuff I considered writing blog posts on but didn’t: *This post by Derek on what Phyllis Tickle calls “The Great Emergence” *Social conservatives versus Rudy Giuliani *This book, which I read while traveling last week *My current ambiguous ecclesial affiliations P.S. Firefly=awesome! My wife and I started watching this for the second time around last Read more

  • Links of interest

    Some stuff worth reading from the past couple of days: On the new genre of “food ethics” writing. The promise of religious environmentalism. The legacy of Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II. Libertarianism vs. “low-tax liberalism” Ron Paul shakes up the GOP. 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

  • Veggie tales

    Marvin has started a series on vegetarianism – first two installments are here and here. Kim at Crossroads discusses a New Yorker review of Tristram Stuart’s The Bloodless Revolution. (I blogged on the Nation review here.) Read more

  • FT goes hi-tech

    First Things has done a snazzy redesign of their website and added a feature where print subscribers (such as yours truly) can get immediate online access to the new issue’s articles. Also noteworthy from the current issue (and available for public consumption): Evangelical theologian Timothy George on “Evangelicals and the Mother of God.” Read more

  • Ivy Bush throwdown!

    Ok, not really. But current Ivy Bush blogger Jonathan and former Ivy Bush blogger Marvin are both blogging about the vexed question of the church’s attitude toward gay and lesbian Christians (see here, here, and here). They come down in different places (to the extent that either are definitively “coming down” anywhere), but both are Read more

  • Wright on the radio

    Via a friend who is a Calvin College grad, here’s a link to a lecture N.T. Wright gave there recently. Also, the lectures Bishop Wright gave at Harvard Memorial Church when he was here last fall are now available online. I haven’t listened to any of these yet, but thought I’d draw folks’ attention to Read more

  • Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

    I received an e-mail drawing my attention to the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, a recently launched think tank whose mission is to foster “the advancement of progressive thought about animals.” The director is Rev. Andrew Linzey, who regular readers will be familiar with (I reviewed Linzey’s Animal Theology here). Although it doesn’t appear to Read more