Well, college starts in like, 10 days, and here I am wrestling with my second mono infection this year, hoping to recover. However, this summer has been better than I thought it would be. For one, I have discovered the music of Los Lonely Boys, the only non-anglos on Country Music Television and just a sweet, sweet band. Tara and Kelsey, the Garza brothers are hot and Texan, get their CD.
It's funny you mention the New Testament John; I've taken this summer to explore my faith before I'm caught up in the rush of college. I've been trying on lots of different hats: Kierkegaardian "Knight of Faith," agnostic, fundamentalist, mainline liberal. The common thread has been my inability to escape God, an idea wonderfully put forth by Flannery O'Connor in her novel Wise Blood.
I'd recommend N.T. Wright's New Testament and the People of God and Jesus and the Victory of God, for anyone who, like me, has as much trouble finding Jesus as escaping God. The author is a highly-regarded "traditionalist" author whose conclusions do support something like orthodox Christianity but arrive there by a very reasoned and public method.
I found his critical-realist epistemology to be a satisfying alternative to radical post-modern skepticism. His elaboration of this method in itself recommends NTPG to all Taspish souls.
If you have no time for that, at least listen to Los Lonely Boys.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [8:06 AM]

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