Just in case anybody is still linking to this website via the URL ‘ericisrad.com’, just know that I am letting that domain expire in 5 days. It has been redirecting to this domain for the past 2 or 3 years, but that will soon no longer be the case. I registered it as a joke [...]
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The City & The City; “…weird on top”
From Above the Convenience Store, this sounds fascinating: I read an advanced copy of The City and The City by China Miéville and was quite impressed. This is a book that will generate a lot of talk in the coming months. The book reads like a fantasy but most assuredly is not. Miéville posits two fictional European [...]
BBC2 Documentary: “Did Darwin Kill God?”
My superviser Conor Cunningham has written a BBC2 documentary entitled “Did Darwin Kill God?” This will air 31 March 2009 at 7pm (GMT). The idea of Conor’s documentary is that, from a theological perspective, he hopes to both provide a sharp critique of ultra-Darwinism on the one hand, while also offering a major critique to [...]
Kierkegaard’s Hardcover-only Writings Soon in Paperback
It was recently pointed out to me by Chris Simpson that the pseudonymous authorship of Kierkegaard only consists of roughly 45% of his total writings, whereas the other 55% were signed/”religious”. With that said, it is exciting to discover that some of the harder-to-find Princeton editions of Kierkegaard’s work consisting of this signed authorship–previously only [...]
This House is Becoming Anxious
The audience at the “Justification by faith (in Christ) alone” debate. About 75 people in attendance. [Correction: today (25 Feb 2009), I spoke with Professor Richard Bell and he kindly let me know that I mis-paraphrased him below. He was not speaking of anxiety-riddled Catholics in Germany, but Protestants he met. My deepest apologies for [...]
Fifteen albums that abide
This is cross-posted from a note I wrote on Facebook. The idea is that one is to choose “15 albums that changed my life,” but that seems like too bold of a claim. The actual description makes more sense than the title: “Write down the first 15 albums you can think of that had such [...]
A Healthy Starter
In my earlier post documenting some of the steps I took to make Ethiopian injera bread in the UK, I mentioned that it took close to a full month to get a vigorously healthy starter going. Also, I used cheaper flour that contained gluten in it for the beginning steps. Well, just five days ago [...]
A LOST theory in the wake of “This Place is Death”
In the wake of the most recent episode of LOST entitled “This Place is Death” (Season 5, episode 5), an idea occurred to me while listening to the recap of the show on the most recent Jay & Jack LOST Podcast. Because all of what follows assumes that the reader has seen all the episodes [...]
My first home-made Ethiopian meal
After living in Nottingham for a few months, I started missing Ethiopian food. Tiana and I lived within walking distance to a fantastic Ethiopian restaurant called the Red Sea in City Heights. I did some looking around Nottingham and, as far as I can tell, there are no Ethiopian restaurants here (although, I’ve heard there [...]
My Adviser on BBC Radio
Fast-forward to 1 hour, 14 minute mark and you can hear my adviser Conor Cunningham, along with others, talking for about 15 about faith and evolution in light of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species: BBC Radio Ulster: Sunday Sequence with William [...]
Short Term 12
My friend Daniel just won the best short film award at Sundance 2009 for his film Short Term 12! [via Dave-O] Trailer:
Symposium on Christ, History and Apocalyptic
A series of posts has begun around Nate Kerr’s book Christ, History and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission over on the Church and Postmodern Culture blog. First up is Joshua Davis on the introductory chapter 1, who has just posted his engagement on Monday. The conversation is already picking up nicely. Here is the [...]
Observations Meta: open letters partial
If you google “rad things” the first search result is my blog. If you were feeling lucky with that term, then “hi!” To all the Fergie fans looking for something substantial: sorry. You are the ones finding my blog the most from search terms in the last quarter, which is sad. To those looking for [...]
Brief Thoughts on Irony
It is often said by the British that Americans do not understand irony. I think this is true depending upon which swath of Americans are being referred to, but by no means is it true in my circles of friends on the West coast. If I remember correctly, though, the place I heard this generalisation [...]
Holiday Visit & Travel
On Christmas day, Tiana and I drove to Manchester to pick up Tiana’s Mum who was to visit for just under two weeks. We had to rent a car on Christmas Eve because no forms of public transportation are running on Christmas day. So, we picked up a car complete with GPS, which was rather [...]
Lt. Daniels, Broyles, and Abaddon
Tiana and I never used to watch television since we left for college in the late 90′s, but a little over a year ago, we started watching LOST. And now we’re watching The Wire and Fringe. These are the only shows we’re watching. And the common denominator? Lance Reddick: For obvious reasons, we think he [...]
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
These are slightly old now (in internet time), but here are a couple of noteworthy reviews in NDPR: Paul Draper has a very good and critical review of Naturalism, which is written by Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro (Interventions series). The final paragraph: Although [Goetz and Taliaferro]‘s assessment of naturalism is, in my opinion, far [...]
New Family Member: Andi
A couple of weeks ago, Tiana and I got our first new kitty together. Previously, we had a foster cat named Durango for a couple of years, but she went back to her original home family in Oklahoma. Last night, our friend Hayley showed us how to trim her claws so that she won’t completely [...]
Goodbye, Blue Monday!
The image you see above is the Highfield House where the Theology and Religious Studies Department and Centre of Theology and Philosophy reside. But this is a very, very rare image — almost impossible to find. It is so precious and legendary that Indiana Jones would definitely say that “it belongs in a museum!” Some [...]