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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: October 2014
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Friday, October 24, 2014. The Verdict on Human Nature: A Lament. The jury is in. Centuries of debate about human nature have come to an end. Are we, at our core, kind and altruistic, or self serving and basically shit? That used to be a debate. A legitimate question for discourse. A rhetorical arc from Locke vs. Hobbes to Annie vs Jeff [1]. But we have adjudicated it. And then there’s Twitter.
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: December 2014
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Wednesday, December 24, 2014. A Summary of a Summary: James Smith on Charles Taylor.in charts and memes. Summarized Charles Taylor’s [2]. Distilling a 900 page tome into a thin, accessible 140 page volume.and also readable (Smith is a phenomenal writer with playful sensibilities who shares my love of 'cross-pressured' fiction). He called it H. Ow (Not) to be secular: Reading Charles Taylor. And th...
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: A Two Front Strategy: Aspiration and Contentment in Love and Vocation
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Sunday, February 15, 2015. A Two Front Strategy: Aspiration and Contentment in Love and Vocation. I recently gave two talks on work. The first argued that our culture underrates vocation, the second argued that canonical clichés put too much hope in our careers and dreams. So what’s true? Is work too important or not important enough? Well, yes. [1]. Creates disappointment and bitterness. The magn...
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: Easter Reflections on...the Honey Badger
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Thursday, April 21, 2011. Easter Reflections on.the Honey Badger. This is the Honey Badger…He doesn’t give a s#$%! At 5 million views [2]. The first time I saw this clip, all I could think about was Gen 3:14-15 known as the protoevangelium:. 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,. 8220;Cursed are you above all livestock. And all wild animals! And you will eat dust.
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: June 2014
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Can Your Work Make You Good? A Thought Experiment Exploring Moral Frameworks of Vocational Choice. People want to do work that matters. Many of us feel either a lot of moral satisfaction or moral guilt (usually both) about the work we do (or don’t do). Is morality tied to vocation? And if so, how? What is the moral framework in which we make vocational choices? So they all w...
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: 2014 in Books (Part 1: Fiction)
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Friday, January 2, 2015. 2014 in Books (Part 1: Fiction). A string of excellent recommendations from friends, blogs and podcasts, translated into a phenomenal year of fiction. I continued my quest to metabolize the Speculative Fiction neo-Classics (working slowly through the Hugo winners), and also surveyed recent, popular work. It gets better. [1]. Audio – I listened to this. H) – Won a Hugo.
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: July 2015
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Sunday, July 12, 2015. Cotton Candy Elephant Redemption: Bing Bong and the Gospel. Spoiler Alert: I built this post on a plot twist in the great new Pixar/Disney film Inside out, which, though predictable, is moving and deserves a spoiler alert. Also, I didn’t do much plot summary, so this might not make a ton of sense without seeing the film. I knew it was coming. Would end up there. A beloved co...
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: March 2014
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Monday, March 31, 2014. Comedians and Quarterbacks: Alternate Divergence from Background Belief Patters. Note: I am teaching a series in philosophical theology this quarter at the UC Davis campus ministry we are affiliated with. I have draft posts that have spun off from each of the first three talks. So I’ll try to post them here. The number of comedians that are not only non-religious [1]. The &...
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: February 2015
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Sunday, February 15, 2015. A Two Front Strategy: Aspiration and Contentment in Love and Vocation. I recently gave two talks on work. The first argued that our culture underrates vocation, the second argued that canonical clichés put too much hope in our careers and dreams. So what’s true? Is work too important or not important enough? Well, yes. [1]. Creates disappointment and bitterness. The magn...
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent: Psalm Plots
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A Fiercer Delight and a Fiercer Discontent. Eclectic reflections on music, philosophy, theology and culture. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. When I set out to teach any part of the Christian Scriptures, I feel like I have to understand how it is situated on multiple scales. But at the least, I have to study the 'book' scale, to understand how it is situated in the genre and work of art in which it lives and breaths. So I crafted a talk. How long should you pray? Psalms answers, as long as it takes. Comm...
