We refer to it in our family as “the clown episode.” Over a dozen years ago our family visited a collection of rare Bibles open to the public as part of a Sunday service sponsored by Salt Lake City’s Evangelical churches, and my kids quit complaining when they saw balloons in the children’s class. Unfortunately, things went south when the hired clown berated my little boy for mentioning the Book of Mormon in a scripture discussion. Continue Reading »
What Haruki Murakami has given us in his latest novel, 1Q84, is a loose baggy metaphysical monster of a fairy tale. The Japanese writer has said he wants to blend Dostoevsky and Raymond Chandler in his work, and he has done so in this novel with a triple portion: religious mysticism, murders and detective work, and the Little People… . Continue Reading»
When we go off to college, we’re not yet adults but no longer children, and we’re often on our own for the first time. No more bells ringing between classes, the everyday routines of high school are behind us. Our parents aren’t around to wake us up in the morning”or to set a curfew. For the most part we’re responsible for and to ourselves… . Continue Reading»
It has been a good year for Heidegger scholarship. Two new English translations released this summer provide readers unprecedented access to seminal periods of Heidegger’s philosophical development. Andrew J. Mitchell’s translation of the Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking includes key selections from Heidegger’s later, postwar period … Continue Reading»
