The All That Remains

Well, I finally finished the Comte-Sponville book. It took me a while; it was hard to read more than a short section of a chapter without stopping to reflect on whether (and why) I agreed or disagreed with whatever I’d just read. Comte-Sponville’s grew up in a Christian household, but has in ...

Of Mice and Me

Stewart caught a mouse today. He popped through the cat door that leads up from the basement with his mouth full of something, which usually means that someone has made the mistake of leaving something appealing lying out in the open down on the tool bench—a bag of wire nuts, say, ...

Faith and Fidelity

One of the items I picked up on the Second Annual Glasgow Sibling Christmas Shopping Trip was this small volume by André Compte-Sponville, titled (quite appropriately) The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. I’m not very far into it, but that’s not because I’m not finding it engaging.  On the contrary, I ...

The Moment of Truth

(Note how deftly I’m avoiding any mention of the fact that it’s been more than 5 months since any of us last blogged.  I appreciate your gentle complicity.) I love May. It’s the end of the semester, so of course there’s the requisite flurry of final papers, exams, and grading.  (Followed, inevitably, ...

Two front teeth? Check.

Feeling a little Grinchy about the whole shopping-list thing?  Have more than you need yourself, and looking for gift suggestions you can offer others on your own behalf? 3.12 is always happy to receive contributions in honor of friends and loved ones--we can even send a special notification card to your “recipient” to ...