If you have any post-Easter curiosities about Christian historical oddities, Books and Culture has a great article about the Shroud of Turin. Employing the thought process of GK Chesterton's "Father Brown," ND Wilson thinks he's found a way to create images on linen like that of the one on the shroud. Instead of placing a dark photonegative image on light linen, Wilson ponders the possibility lightening the linen to leave behind an image. It's a really fun article, written with sensitivity and humility.
Follow this link to find out about the Communist Subversion of American Folk Music. Check out the RealAudio samples on the left side of the page. The one about Bob Dylan is especially funny.
For more streaming a/v delight, you can hop on over to the CBC and watch video from George Stroumboulopoulos's The Hour. It's not often that national media personalities are this intelligent, articulate and in posession of punk rock credibility.
Also, Ben Hoekstra on Los Angeles.
Follow this link to find out about the Communist Subversion of American Folk Music. Check out the RealAudio samples on the left side of the page. The one about Bob Dylan is especially funny.
For more streaming a/v delight, you can hop on over to the CBC and watch video from George Stroumboulopoulos's The Hour. It's not often that national media personalities are this intelligent, articulate and in posession of punk rock credibility.
Also, Ben Hoekstra on Los Angeles.
I just finished David McCullogh's biography of Pres. John Adams. Such a good book, and so comforting. Adams was grumpy and curmudgeonly and brilliant and loving and had such firm faith in both God and America. The book's a frickin doorstop, at 550 pages, but it may become one of those that I read over and over again.
Posted by
Meredith |
3:07 PM
Whoa! You're still alive!
I've been meaning to check out some biographical stuff about the Adamses. They sorta represent the good things that came out of American Calvinism, so I figure I'd better read up on it.
Posted by
Brian |
11:04 PM
Yeah, I live! I turned in my diss to the committee Monday, with the hope of defending the first week of May. So hopefully, I can now re-enter the human race :)
The more I find out about John Adams, the better. He knew about his own faults, owned up to them and tried to fix them. He loved and respected his wife as an intellectual equal. He was jolly sometimes. Good stuff. (I'd like to know more about the Alien and Sedition Acts, though. That puts a black eye on him.)
Posted by
Meredith |
8:06 PM