When I listened to Phil Ford and J.F. Martel defining the weird and contrasting it with the strange, my mind wandered into thinking about the Lord’s Supper. The idea that we are actually eating Christ’s Body when we eat the bread is, after all, quite weird. And I found their discussion of weirdness provided a …
One of my guilty pleasures is the Weird Studies podcast, which is an ongoing conversation between music professor Phil Ford and film maker / writer J.F. Martel. The podcast’s subtitle, “Art and philosophy at the edge of the thinkable,” sums up the weirdness they offer up every fortnight. In ep. 133, “On Weirding, and the …
In the long ago world of high school, when a generation was deeply divided between those who liked country and those who liked rock ‘n roll, I was in the rock camp. That social divide has clung to me for life. For the most part, I have a visceral reaction to Nashville style country music …
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I recently read this article (on my Pocket feed, so the link sends you to Pocket, not the Telegraph) from the Daily Telegraph about the disappearance of vegetarian options in London restaurants. I was skeptical because of the Telegraph’s political leanings. Might this just be part of a battle against wokeism? The next day I …
I suspect I’ve been thinking about the Wedding Feast of the Lamb (Rev 19:9-10) all wrong. To be honest, I’ve not thought much about this feast at all; it’s simply one of the things that are part of the end of Revelation. What struck me in my current study of the book is the brevity …
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