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“Something From Nothing”: Debate Circuits and Meaningful Discourse
With our coursework turned to seminars (of which mine, about the figuration of democracy in In His Steps, has left me with more questions than answers at present), I’m in final-paper-writing mode,...
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My Other Reading List These Past Two Months
I’m just finishing off my final essay for the Evangelical Lit intercession course I took this summer–a course that entailed reading John Eldredge’s Epic: The Story That God Is Telling and the Role That...
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Dating
A man and a woman enter a restaurant separately. The man arrives first, acquires a table for two, and adjusts the green tie he mindfully selected for the occasion. The woman arrives next, wearing a...
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On Buddhism, Christianity, and the Justness of Guilt
A few days ago, I posted a 2009 Discover Magazine article that explained, in the best layman’s terms I had seen to date, a study with fMRI components that demonstrated how believers process the beliefs...
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Cui bono studeo?
I had an ideal of life as a doctoral student a year or so back–of spending an hour early each morning on languages, another on sciences and maths, and a short while reading the day’s news and essays of...
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On the Home Stretch of the First Doctoral Exam
There are just two days to go in my first doctoral exam, a week in which I’ve been writing three papers demonstrating breadth and depth of knowledge in the Victorian era from the ~100 reading units...
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Scientific Storytelling: Why It Matters How We Write the World
There’s a part in Genesis meant to explain why many animals have stripes, spots, and related patterns. As in “Just-So” stories from around the world, the tale makes the best use it can of its immediate...
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Living in a World of Magical Thinkers
It’s Easter weekend, as the surfeit of chocolate and bunny imagery in store fronts attested to yesterday–and also the heavy-handed Christian parade running down King St., Waterloo, midday. “God...
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Reading Note: Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
I usually post my doctoral reading notes on Facebook–a bizarre move on my part, since status bars really aren’t made for longer observations–but I’m going to try to publish future notes here instead....
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Lewis Wolpert’s Gender Trouble
I own two books by developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert: How We Live & Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells and Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief. I...
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