Back
After a very pleasant visit with my parents, I’ve returned. My first order of business is a song — Apocalytica’s ‘Beautiful’.
In Place of the Post I Meant to Write…
…is a duet by Robert Gupta and Joshua Roman, playing ‘Passacaglia’. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Prejudice, by Tim Minchin
Language… It can be so destructive… (May contain objectionable language — how ironic)
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Something More
There’s power in music, and I’m one of those people who’s easily moved by the emotions music evokes (I very much appreciate a ‘powerful’ song). Particularly, I find the search for ‘something more’ to be a most moving musical expression (with the first three songs below the ones I’ve been listening to most often). This perplexes me, however. You see, I’m very much moved by people looking for something more (even if that’s not what the song is supposed to be about), but I’m hardly moved by songs which purport to exclaim that ‘something more’ (i.e. much contemporary Christian music). That is, unless I’m listening to older (Christian) music (e.g. Rez, which is also below). Maybe it’s an ‘issue’ of identification? In any case…
N.T. Wright On the Book of Acts
I’ve been on something of an N.T. Wright ‘listening’ spree, and below is the first part of a series N.T. Wright teaches / preaches on the book of Acts (I believe there are 26 or so in total). If you’ve got the spare time, give ‘er a listen!
Modern Fascism
I just ran across the following (link below) review of Gene Edward Veith’s book Modern Fascism. I haven’t read the book (yet), being a meager 6 years old when it was first published. However, even though I’m linking to a book review (‘and partial paraphrase’), the topics discussed — such as the link between Fascism and the ideals being resurrected by postmodernism — are engaging, so much so that the book is, voila, on my reading list.
You can find the view here: http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue118.htm. Especially interesting if you’ve never heard of postmodernism being linked with fascism before.… (Read more)
Did you know this about Islam?
An interesting (and factually correct) video I first saw over at Maverick Philosopher on the concepts of Abrogration, Shara’i law and Taqiyya in Islam. It’s worth a watch if you aren’t aware of what these concepts are.
Slavoj Zizek on Consumerism
Very good, very interesting. Zizek on the hypocrisy of what he calls “cultural consumerism”. You can find here.… (Read more)
And John Loftus’ Assessment…
Of The Infidel Delusion, apparently he isn’t all that impressed either. Read here.
Update: Apparently they’re quite keen at shooting back at each other. Triablogue here, and Loftus, again, here.
I’m not entirely sure what to think of their correspondence over this book (or these books). It appears childish and vitriolic on both parts.… (Read more)
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