I had a half-day off and wasn't meeting up with the Kid until later, so I read the first chapter of my legal philosophy textbook this afternoon. It was a mini-essay on natural law along with a series of selections from Aquinas. Which is such an odd place to start in a lot of ways because it's so based in a whole other political system than our ( Read more... )

It's been just over a decade since I wrote my "Eating Stones" series ( Read more... )

Back at the NY Tolkien conference, I picked up a copy of Adam Barkman's Imitating the Saints: Christian Philosophy and the Superhero Mythology. I haven't actually gotten past the introduction because I keep getting hung up on how the author tries to define philosophy, let alone Christian philosophy. (Which seems more in to apologetics than, say, ( Read more... )