I’ll show you the life of a mind.
You, my always attentive readers (see how I arbitrarily assign personality traits to the shadowy, perhaps nonexistent, grammaticaster.net audience?), will undoubtedly be aware that I attended a religious debate last night on the Samford University campus between noted atheist Christopher Hitchens and Christian apologist John Lennox. I am not a journalist, and I am not [...]
The city of Birmingham woke up this morning under a soft white blanket of snow, and since we only get this chance about once every three years or so, I took the opportunity to take pictures. Lots of pictures. 309 pictures was the grand total, in fact. Not all of them are works of art [...]
As I have been spending more time in the office over the past week, I have had occasion to contemplate my own productivity. I am a productivity/organizational nut. I love figuring out ways to perform my daily tasks more efficiently. Before the arrival of the crackberry I would carry a folded index card in my [...]
Back in the premarital era, when I used to go out to bars and regularly drink myself into a stupor, I observed a curious phenomenon which was troubling and which should by any degree of rationalization should have caused me to rethink my behavior. Before there was anything resembling today’s social media, I dealt with [...]
Today – Charles Darwin’s birthday – seems like a fitting time to revisit my religious re-exploration. I am (embarrassingly) only about halfway through Collins’ The Language of God, and so am reluctant to voice too strong an opinion one way or the other on it. I can say that, so far, it hasn’t done much [...]
Well, now as many as five different facebook friends have prompted me to join the throngs of internet socialites sharing 25 random things about themselves. I, as an aspiring socialite myself, have therefore decided that it is time to respond in kind. As I also am overdue for a blog post (and am, admittedly, uninspired [...]
Hat tip to Richard Dawkins, whose book The God Delusion I finally finished two nights ago. It pretty much gives an intelligent, articulate voice to a great number of theological thoughts that have been troubling me for years. Still probing and pondering. More in-depth posts to come.
It is one of those nights when I know I should be writing something… I need to keep writing, but I have absolutely nothing to say. So let’s just spin the wheel and see what comes up, shall we? The state of disunion. For a few weeks there I felt extremely focused — around the [...]
Death. It lies in the tall savannah grass, waiting for us all. We frolic along, blissful, sometimes careful, sometimes reckless, but always unprepared. At every given moment, those cruel jaws are clamping shut on someone, somewhere. And eventually it will touch us all — our parents, our spouses, our siblings, our friends, our co-workers and [...]
