I’ve always enjoyed reading Ludwig Wittgenstein. I spent several years at school focusing on him and his theories (and how they related to theology) — due mostly to my advisor’s interest in him — and I read and re-read his work periodically. Today I found this entry on a Crooked Timber contributor’s site, and realized […]
Posted on December 23rd, 2004 by admin
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Lately I’ve been unmotivated to write in the space. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking about things (there’s been plenty of fodder provided by Gideon Strauss), it’s that I haven’t had the time or motivation to write coherent responses to those things. I have been collecting a reading list, however, and hopefully I’ll make […]
Posted on December 21st, 2004 by admin
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It’s rather chilly here in Pittsburgh this morning (temperatures hovering around 0 degrees fahrenheit without wind chill), and we had a fair amount of snow yesterday. So, out of respect for my Steamroller, I fixed up the old singlespeed mountain bike this weekend and rode it to work through the snow and slush. The bike […]
Posted on December 20th, 2004 by admin
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Derek Melleby has started a series on necalvinism, and that got me thinking. Neocalvinism seems to be a distinctly academic adventure, with the loudest voices being professors and other involved in higher education. In fact, Derek quotes Byron Borger’s thoughts on the subject, and he hammers home one of the goals of neocalvinism: we need […]
Posted on December 15th, 2004 by admin
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We had our first real taste of winter yesterday and today, with about of inch of snow on the ground here in the city. That made for an interesting ride to work on skinny road tyres and nice coating of fresh snow on the road. I should begin to rebuild the singlespeed mountain bike very […]
Posted on December 14th, 2004 by admin
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I tried yesterday (really I did) to break the silence in this space, but my workstation crashed rather ungracefully while I was writing a post. So well. There have been several things I’ve been pondering this week, and I don’t have long entries for any of them. But I’ll mention a couple: 1. Gideon Strauss […]
Posted on December 10th, 2004 by admin
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Mother Nature has decided to throw some truly bad weather my way for the ride to work today. The wind kicked up quite a bit last night, and before I left I was looking at 30mph winds with gusts up to 45mph. The rain had held off though, so at least I would be dry. […]
Posted on December 1st, 2004 by admin
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is that Pittsburgh’s next alleycat will be December 18.
Posted on November 29th, 2004 by admin
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We had a pleasant Thanksgiving holiday, spending time with both sides of the family. Cold weather seems to have descended on Pittsburgh, finally, as well. Saturday was a beautiful day, though, with crisp temperatures and lots of sunshine. It would have been a nice bouldering day, but family trumps climbing (most of the time), and […]
Posted on November 29th, 2004 by admin
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Fr. Jape‘s latest rambling, Against Theodicies and Theology examines the controversy at Huntington College over the dismissal of a theology professor for his views on Open Theism. He finishes on an interesting note: Or, perhaps even better, theology could be left to the realm of farmers/soldiers/steelworkers, or anyone else of the sort who is daily […]
Posted on November 24th, 2004 by admin
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