Generations

This year, one of my resolutions has been to read the entire Bible chronologically. It being January, I am still in Genesis. This time through, the element of the book that has struck me most forcibly has been the multi-generational mindset implied by God's promises to Abraham and Isaac.

The Epic of the Universe

Just a musing from my devotions this morning:

Inalienable Rights?

I've recently been reading Alisdair McIntyre's amazing book, After Virtue. It's an interesting reflection on contemporary philosophy's inability to conceptualize a stable foundation for ethics. McIntyre is working within an Aristotelian framework, which I particularly appreciate (I think very highly of Aristotle's Ethics). But one particular point in the early chapters of the book has stood out to me. 

McIntyre argues that the idea of human rights is entirely artificial.

Some Reading on Writing

Hello friends,

Just a short post today to keep in touch. I thought that I would share with you a few of the writing blogs which I've discovered in recent months.

Creative Election

Since I've started this attempt at novel writing, I've realized that I have some peculiar ideas about authorship. Over the years I've read a great many blog posts about the writing life, some of which, perhaps unhelpfully, detail the devotion, emotional involvement, and obsessive habits of true writers (in slightly-too-artistic-and-emotional prose, at that). I always find these posts off-putting, because the truth is, I am not like those writers. Maybe just because I haven't yet committed enough time to the craft. Maybe because those posts are overly dramatic and certainly generalized. But my authorial insecurities always whisper to me that the real explanation must simply be that I am not a true writer.