Fascinating reflections from Scot McKnight on Erwin McManus’ book “Soul Cravings”. He boils McManus’ point down to the idea that: “If God is real and you are created by him, your soul already knows it.” - via “The Inner Apologetic - Jesus Creed“ ItR...

From Haaretz: Jerusalem’s rabbinic court erred and overstepped its authority last year when it retroactively declared that the converted, Canadian-Israeli son of prominent Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim was in fact a non-Jew, the court’s ombudsman ruled earlier this month. Eliezer Go...

Fascinating post at Jesus Creed, with the best bits being mostly in the comments. Scot has posted a short letter: Scot, what are the “everyday heresies” the church embraces and/or espouses? Any insight? Wondering if complacency, consumerism, and the outsourcing of parental responsibility...

From a Neil Postman speech: "At the risk of sounding patronizing, may I try to put everyone's mind at ease? I doubt that the 21st century will pose for us problems that are more stunning, disorienting or complex than those we faced in this century, or the 19th, 18th, 17th, or for that matter, many o...

The concept of Daas Torah, as the specialy granted ability of Gedoei Hador to receive Divine assistance in ruling  on all matters, including those that are not explicitly linked to a Torah source, is often linked to the"chassidic revolution" and the concept of the Rebbe as a guide in...

I wasn't kidding when I said I can't figure out how old I am. Here's a picture of some of my HS classmates at the reunion: I can't stop looking at this photo, because although I recognize a few of the faces, they all look old to me. Older than me, obviously, and old. It's striking. Kind of scary, ev...

Been fairly taken back by the whole bushfire thing, mixed in with the usual busy-ness so it’s been a bit of a rough effort trying to get much else out onto a keyboard. But I’ve been brewing this post for quite a while, so I’m having a go at it. It’s longer than some of my nor...

Head on over to Business Week's New Entrepreneur John Tozzi and a friend are: exploring how regulations written for large companies (operating on an industrial scale to serve mass markets) don’t necessarily fit small companies or independent workers (operating on an artisan scale to serve niche ma...

Doing the Top 10 Death Metal songs a bit ago had me remembering back to 1993 when this video was actually in rotation on Headbanger’s Ball. This is an awesome song from a great Death album.   Tags: chuck-schuldiner, death, Individual Thought Patterns, The Philosopher Share This...

Last night I had to take my 6 year old daughter into the local urgent care. It seems my stellar skillz as mother are not at stellar as one might think. A wound on her arm (inflicted by beauty bark 4 days ago) grew to the size of a roma tomato between the hours of 9 and 7 yesterday…  But that&...