A Thinking Reed

  • Friday metal – Killswitch Engage, “A Bid Farewell” (live)

  • Huckabee vs. torture

    It’s a depressing sign of the times when you feel like you should praise a politician who wants to hold America to a higher standard than, say, the Inquisition or the Khmer Rouge. Still, it’s good to see Mike Huckabee joining John McCain (and Ron Paul) as a Republican against torture: After the Iowa poll…

  • D.C. = most walkable

    Lucky for me as I walk pretty much everywhere I go. I might take the Metro once or twice a week, but we’re lucky enough to live in a neighborhood where pretty much all the necessities (and several of the luxuries) of life are within a couple blocks’ distance. Of course, we pay for that…

  • The case for McCain

    CPA makes it. I’ve come around, somewhat to my own surprise, to the view that, of all the likely GOP nominees, McCain is the best option. Initially I thought Romney might be the least damaging of the crop since I reasoned that he would govern as a northeastern Rockefeller Republican (far from my favorite ideological…

  • Elizabeth Kucinich talks Ron Paul

    As a follow up to the other day’s post, Elizabeth Kucinich praises Ron Paul (via YF). And is Mrs. K a total babe, or what? Wow!

  • Ear candy

    What to call this? Mall-core? Hot Topic metal? It’s undeniably heavy, but a little too catchy, a little too emo, a little too…pretty. http://www.myspace.com/bulletformyvalentine

  • The war of the Lamb

    Graham begins what promises to be a stimulating series on “nonviolent eschatology.”

  • Friday metal – Sabbath

    ‘Nuff said. “War Pigs” (live in Paris, 1970): “Paranoid” (from British TV, 1970; song starts about 2 minutes in): “Die Young” (with Ronnie James Dio on vocals):

  • Infallible?

    Good post and discussion at Derek’s on “ecclessial infallibility.” I’ve long had the suspicion that infallibility, whether papal, ecclesial, or scriptural, really doesn’t do any work. But I’ve been unable to articulate this to my own satisfaction. Maybe a future post.

  • More stuff I haven’t read yet

    An ecumenical symposium of sorts at First Things on the Blessed Virgin Mary: Edward T. Oakes, S.J. J. I. Packer T. M. Moore Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Matthew Levering