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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  • Friday metal – unapologetic nu-metal edition??

    If there’s any sub-genre of metal more disdained than hair metal it’s got to be late-90s “nu-metal” (also sometimes called – somewhat inaccurately – rap-metal). While generally quite terrible, there were some decent bands that came out of it. I have a soft spot for this band and actually own two of their albums (this Read more

  • Three approaches to faith and works

    In continuing the tradition of outsourcing quality theological reflection to my betters, allow me to link to this weighty post from Christopher on justification, sanctification and the various kinds of legalisms and antinomianisms that afflict the left and right. The way I’ve learned to think about faith and works was that we are saved – Read more

  • Wednesday hip hop? – Public Enemy, “Harder Than You Think”

    A great new track from PE’s 20th anniversary album(!) How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul??? Read more

  • Why creation?

    (Talk about a presumptuous title!) In this post I touched briefly on the question of why God creates the universe in the first place. Keith Ward, following Hegel, suggests that in creating God is able to realize a kind of love and relationship, one with creatures capable of not responding to God, that would otherwise Read more

  • A 21st century latitudinarianism

    I’m traveling for work, currently staying at a resort in Florida for a company meeting. There’s a reason people don’t vacation in Florida in August it turns out. Though it may actually be more pleasant here than it was in DC when I left… Anyhoo, my flight was delayed for three hours, which gave me Read more

  • Fun with blog ads

    I couldn’t help but notice that blog-friend Graham at Leaving Muenster is sporting an ad for the “Family Values” tour on his site! Now, I could be going out on a limb here, but I’m going to bet that Graham is probably not a fan of Korn, Evanescence, Atreyu, Hellyeah, or Trivium. Gotta be careful Read more

  • Friday metal – Faith No More, “Digging the Grave”

    I’m not sure FNM should properly be called a metal band, but they definitely have metal influences. But, more importantly, they’re one of my favorites and it’s my blog. So there. Read more

  • The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society 2: The trouble with liberalism

    In Part I of his The Making and Unmaking of Technological Society (see previous post), Murray Jardine traces the trajectory of modern liberalism from its beginnings with Locke and Hobbes to the present. His argument is that liberalism embodies the contradictions of the technological society in that it recognizes humanity’s capacity to alter its physical Read more

  • What’s wrong with Pelagianism?

    In a comment to this post bs asks: Having followed the blog and its comments for a while, I’ve noticed that Pelagianism is taken (by Lee and commenters) to be a dirty word. Embarassingly, I didn’t know what it was and googled it. While I can’t say that I necessarily agree with Pelagius, I admit Read more

  • …and Justice for All

    James Hetfield detained at a UK airport for looking like a terrorist. “Death to America!!” Read more