A Thinking Reed

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

Random musings

  • Fatigue

    I was thinking this weekend as I was skimming the Sunday paper how tired I am of all the Presidential race coverage. And then the awful truth hit me with renewed clarity: the actual election is still almost a full year away. Good grief. I’ll be under a rock for the next 11 months if 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

  • Reporting from the road

    I’m in Atlanta, traveling for work, which, ironically, gives me more time to blog since I’m sitting here in a hotel room by myself with nothing to do. Interestingly, I seem to be here at the same time that this is going on, so my hotel is full of well-scrubbed Baptist kids walking around with Read more