Micah Tillman

Yesterday was both Mothers’ Day and Pentecost. It was a strange combination; but The Wife informs me that “Spirit” in both Hebrew and Greek is a female noun. So there was some connection, I suppose.
Our associate pastor, Adam, gave the sermon. Though inspired by Pentecost, it wasn’t a “usual” Pentecost-type sermon. It had to do [...]

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In one of the two classes I’m teaching at the moment, we’ve moved on to Nietzsche’s On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life (from Untimely Meditations).
We traced modern philosophy’s fundamental principle — that all human beings have Reason — from Descartes’ Discourse on Method/Meditations on First Philosophy, through Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil [...]

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