Nov
4
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I’ve mentioned several times that I began my Christian sojourn as an Episcopalian. In some of my posts I have been rather merciless to my alma mater, but perhaps that’s just a manifestation of what many separated couples know all too well about the feelings one tends to have towards someone, or some thing, that [...]
Nov
4
On Thinking About the Trinity
November 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment
There is an interesting little book, which used to be quite popular among philosophy majors, called Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, published by Edwin Abbot in 1884. It tells the story of a two-dimensional world populated by characters of various shapes: women are thin, straight lines, men are polygons with numbers of sides corresponding [...]
Nov
3
My Mistake–Possibly
November 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I thought that the use of X-Mail anonymous mail systems became obsolete nearly a decade ago when it became easy–and free–to set up an email account under any identity one cared to invent. Imagine my surprise, then, to get email routed to my inbox through hushmail.com, surely one of the quaintest of the surviving systems. [...]
Nov
3
More Dappled Thought
November 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I once had a good friend, a fellow Episcopalian (at the time I was still an Episcopalian), with whom I often discussed interesting philosophical and theological questions. We were just amateurs, of course, a couple of graduate students in classics who thought that knowing Latin and Greek was a sufficient condition for knowing just about [...]
Nov
3
Paris on the Hocking
November 3, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I haven’t blogged in a while because my wife and son have absconded to Paris for the week, leaving me and Olivia to fend for ourselves amidst the debauchery of Athens. To judge from recent news reports, Paris, too, seems to be in the throes of debauchery, but it seems to me that if one [...]
