On Separation

Moon wonders what our culture’s germ phobia really says about us: Decks instead of porches. Television instead of book circles. The internet instead of coffee houses. How many layers must we place between each other before we lose all sense of other people? And how much of an impact will this endless intermediation have on […]

Coffee

For some time, I had been purchasing coffee beans at La Prima‘s cafe in the Strip District. The beans were almost always freshly roasted, and it gave me an excuse to stop on the morning commute, drink an espresso, and thumb through the New York Times. The beans weren’t cheap, but they weren’t terribly expensive […]

Two Moments*

Water falls down, down over rocks, splashing into a pool below us. Spray douses us, and the mist becomes a rainbow in the Spring sunshine. The sound of the waterfall is deafening, and we shout to make ourselves heard. I tie into the already damp rope and slip into my climbing shoes, doing what I […]

Thank You, Kieran

Especially for question #1.

ID v Evolution

Honestly, I’ve not followed the “debates” in Kansas between evolutionists and proponents of Intelligent Design theory. Others have already commented on it, and I don’t think I have much to add to the discussion, but I did come across this article by William Saletan on Slate. As he usually does, Saletan takes evolutionists and, more […]

Crunchy Conservatives

Via Gideon Strauss I found this National Review essay by Rod Dreher on crunchy conservatives — that is, conservatives who don’t fit well into the current Republican mold due to their rather, um, liberal views on things like the environment and the Market. I’ve found myself captivated by this line of thought (generally through exposure […]

And There Goes My Day…

The Spring 2005 edition of The New Pantagruel was released today, with plenty of tasty articles to consume.

Community and Place

Our church’s small “academic” discussion group convened last night to discuss a trio of short essays by Caleb Stegall (including this one from the New Pantagruel) focusing on the concepts of place and community as a response to unbridled liberalism (in the traditional, political sense of liberalism). Stegall’s general line of thought contends that modernism […]

Doppelganger

Apparently, there is another sideburned person riding his bike on the streets of Pittsburgh with a motley bag on his back. For the third time in as many weeks, a car pulled up next to me on the morning commute, and the driver rolled down the window, and said “Hey, Seth!” I simply shrug my […]

Boredom

The redesign work seems to be finished. I worked through a few issues this morning, and we’re both pretty happy with the final product. Enjoy. Work has been painfully slow. I’m in a holding pattern on several projects, which means things will come crashing down all at once. I’ve been so bored I’m not even […]