Monthly Archives: March 2009

Katie Sackoff as Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck

Science Fiction: Who Saves?

27 Mar Filed under Uncategorized.

Benjamin A. Plotinsky has written an interesting survey of Science Fiction, past, present and future in the City Journal: How Science Fiction Found Religion.   It covers Star Trek through Star Wars, right up to current stuff, including Battlestar Galactica.  His conclusion:  following the cold … Read More →

Globalization and Identity Sacrifice

25 Mar Filed under Course Work.

How are we to assuage those who react violently to the perception that the core of their identity is at risk?

What is Your Normality?

24 Mar Filed under Course Work.

In which the journalist challenges us to see

She sure can Tech

24 Mar Filed under Uncategorized.

Don’t ever be tempted to think that just because a person is female she is less equipped for adventures in and contributions to science and technology.   Remember, Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) gets the credit for being the first computer programmer.

G’me that ‘Ole Time Humanism

23 Mar Filed under Uncategorized.

Roger Scruton reflects on the growing militantism, especially in Britain, of the New Humanism (The American Spectator, March 2009).  Nostalgically, he compares it to the Humanism of his childhood and his parents.  

NC Electoral Freedom Act

22 Mar Filed under Uncategorized.

The Political Action Committee (PAC) North Carolinians for Free and Proper Elections is encouraging NC citizens to contact their NC District Senator and express support for NC Senate Bill 731: Electoral Freedom Act of 2009 sponsored by Jim Jacumin (R-44 Burke and Caldwell Counties).  This … Read More →

Good Lovers

22 Mar Filed under Course Work.

The Transformative Effect of the Impossible

Of “True Religion” and Science

22 Mar Filed under Uncategorized. 1 Comment.

In which Caputo describes different responses to Modernity's folly

Dr. Harold Franz

In Memoriam Dr. Franz

21 Mar Filed under Education.

I met Dr. Harold Franz and his wife Wilma at our church, New Covenant Presbyterian, Aiken SC.  He was an elder, and well into his seventies.   I was a young, troubled man, not quite twenty.  They loved traditional hymns; she was the organist. I was … Read More →

Saint Paul Writing His Epistles by Valentin de Boulogne or Nicolas Tournier

So Very Human

20 Mar Filed under Uncategorized.

In which I thank God for the Apostle Paul, who was so very human