Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Another brief quote from the master, whose worth I have sadly begun to doubt.
The temperance of the hero proceeds from the same wish to do no dishonor to the worthiness he has. But he loves it for its elegancy, not for its austerity. It seems not worth his while to be solemn, and denounce with [...]

I was reading the Tucker Carlson interview of Jeb Bush last Friday and Tucker asked him what he was currently reading.
Sometimes folks think that is a bullshit question but I love to know what other folks are reading because I am always reading something.
Jeb said that he was reading The Singularity Is Near: When Humans [...]

A friend from church lent me his copy of James the Brother of Jesus. Rather than review it properly, I’ll just list what the author tries to achieve in terms of my response to it.
Heading 1: Those items I felt the author achieved convincingly.
These are items which the author convinced me of or that [...]

Psychics can’t lead investigators anywhere they couldn’t get on their own faster.
That seems like a no-brainer… but of course there are suckers born every minute. The reason I mention it is that it reminded me of one of my favorite reads when I lived in Mobile, AL – Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and [...]

Part III of Ben Witherington’s critique of Bart Ehrman. Needless to say, I still haven’t read the book. Part III does seem to be the most damning, though. Some salient points:
When it comes to the issue of the virginal conception vs. the incarnation it seems to me that something vital is missing [...]

This weekend, I finished Knife of Dreams (Yes, I’m over 35 years old and am just now reading the Wheel of Time… Yes, I’m reading it anyway). That’s the last written by Robert Jordan before his death, the eleventh in the series, and the penultimate book of the series. I look forward to the [...]

I read Slaughterhouse Five as a teenager. Reading it, even knowing that it was a highly fictionalized account of war, had more influence on my thinking about war than it should have. But time… as though I hadn’t daydreamed enough about time, time travel, time dilation, eternity, … you name it – Billy Pilgrim’s pickle [...]

My wife heard “everyone” talking about The Shack. Apparently it has done quite well sales-wise, and has benefited from word of mouth dissemination. That’s how my wife found out about it.
She normally reads at a leisurely pace, but she devoured this one overnight, then handed it off to me. She commented that [...]

Sunday – 9:30 – Unitarian Universalist Church of Chattanooga
The book is Job, and I’ve gotta say I’m terribly excited about it. I hope anyone from the area who can make it to this session of Rediscovering the Bible, will make it. Those who can’t, religious or no, I hope you’ll take a while and re-read [...]

Growing up Southern Baptist is part of it. Being annoyed by and wishing to counter cheap apologetics figures in. Thinking that religion is probably the most confusing and mystifying aspect of the human psychology rounds out the reasons why this is no surprise:
You know the Bible 100%!

Wow! You are awesome! You [...]