2020
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2 July 2020
Logos and Cosmos
In this post I explore the interesting interplay between the concepts of Logos and Cosmos. A Cosmos is an ordered arrangement of elements, which requires a source or cause for this order. Hence, Logos can be understood as the principle of organization for any Cosmos.
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8 April 2020
Different Meanings of Substance
We should hold carefully apart two meanings of the philosophical term substance. (i) the essence or whatness of a thing and (ii) the real distinct subsistence of a thing.
-
23 January 2020
Jordan Peterson and Platonic Realism
Jordan Peterson's use of Jungian archetypes brings him close to the kind of metaphysical realism we see in Christian Platonism---close, but not quite there.
-
11 January 2020
The Kingdom of the Heavens
The last two weekends, I preached for both Lexington Christian Fellowship and Jessamine Christian Fellowship on the Kingdom of the Heavens in the Gospel of Matthew.
2019
-
10 December 2019
Religious Experience and Brain Activity
Even if we could establish a tight connection between religious experience and activity in a certain region of the brain, this would not prove religious experience to be illusory.
-
3 December 2019
Guilt by Association
We should not judge philosophical ideas or practices based on a surface similarity to unchristian systems of thought. Rather we should look out for substantive corruptions to the truth.
-
16 November 2019
Hildebrand on Sin and Sanctity
The opposite of the self-righteous man is not the sinner but the saint. The saint can be humble in his righteousness only because he walks in a deep awareness of grace.
-
9 October 2019
Traditionalism
Traditionalism is best understood as an orientation toward the timeless truth rather than an attachment to old ideas simply because they are old.
-
4 September 2019
Two Personalisms
We must distinguish the "Christian perosonalist" movement from what some philosophers call "theistic personalism" in contrast to "classical theism."
-
24 July 2019
What are the Forms?
Following the last post on the meaning of Platonism, I here flesh out the idea of transcendent Forms as intelligible structures that keep showing up again and again in the world of our experience.
-
27 June 2019
What I Mean by Platonism
Platonism has come to mean different things to different scholars. When I call myself a Platonist, I mean that I believe in the Forms, that I believe in real, eternal, immaterial, intelligible structures beyond the world of sense.
-
20 June 2019
Enjoying God
Gloomy Christianity develops because people learn to associate enjoyment with sin. The solution is not more games in church, but rather a revelation of God's beauty.
-
10 June 2019
Conservatism and Ideology
Ideologies are overly simplistic views of the world, which support themselves through slogans. While slogans may be practically indispensable in a democracy, conservatism is something more.
-
4 June 2019
Know Thyself
The Christian notion of self-knowledge is a long way off from New Age self-realization and not quite the same as the pagan Greek original either.
-
30 May 2019
Eros Comes from Beauty Beheld
I often encounter Christians who feel guilty because they seem to lack a certain fire or zeal in their pursuit of what they know to be true. I argue they can remedy this by recognizing a link between the psychology of eros and the time they spend imaginatively beholding the beauty of God.
-
28 May 2019
Apparently Anselm is Convincing
Teaching Anselm recently, I discovered that many of my students found the ontological argument very convincing. I think this has to do with the way older authors are presented.
2018
-
11 June 2018
No Such Thing As Subjective Truth
Just some casual reflections that I had after a friendly discussion resulted in my arguing that "subjective truth" was an oxymoron.
-
9 May 2018
Justin Martyr on the Trinity
Justin Martyr has a surprisingly developed understanding of Trinitarian doctrine for someone writing in the first half of the second century.
-
11 April 2018
Mission, Power, Authority, and the Holy Spirit
Here is the text of the sermon I preached at LCF and JCF this weekend on four themes in the book of Acts.
-
5 April 2018
Athens and Jerusalem Talk
I'm giving a talk at the Athens and Jerusalem Conference in Lawrenceburg KY on Saturday, April 7, 2018. The talk will be on the Platonic conception of the self as the soul, especially in the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, and how this is different from the Christian conception. Anyone interested is invited.
-
5 February 2018
Job Teaching
Sermon delivered giving an overview of the book of Job at LCF on 2017-12-30.
2017
-
26 November 2017
Screwtape the Christian Personalist
Uncle Screwtape reveals a deeply personalistic understanding of good and evil.
-
23 November 2017
The Logos and Jordan Peterson
Reflection on the difference between my own understanding of the logos and Jordan Petersons.
-
30 September 2017
Narnian Platonism
I just finished reading all the Narnia books to my kids and ran across this wonderful bit about Plato...
-
16 September 2017
A Strong Claim from Zizioulas
Metropolitan John Zizioulas puts in a particularly striking way the historical claim that I am working on in my current book project.
-
14 September 2017
Culture of Repudiation
Roger Scruton identifies a feature of academic life that has become singularly disagreeable to me.
-
20 July 2017
Description of Early Christians to Diognetus
I ran across this beautiful description of the early Christians in the Letter to Diognetus while reading the first volume of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. If only we could be true to this description, how much better salted would the world be by our presence?
-
16 July 2017
Sincerity Formulated into Dogma
James Russell Lowell explains that passion and sincerity are not enough.
-
28 May 2017
Simplicity Leads to Despotism
Russell Kirk explains the connection between ideological simplicity and despotism.
-
27 May 2017
Spirit vs. Flesh in Romans 8
Here is the presentation for the sermon at the CF churches this weekend.
-
20 May 2017
Gratitude
My address at the 2017 Mars Hill graduation.
-
18 May 2017
Whittaker Chambers on Writing and Inertia
By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia.
-
18 May 2017
Burke on Moral Order
The awful Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence...
-
17 May 2017
Touchstone Review
My review of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Liturgy and Personality appeared in Touchstone.
-
16 May 2017
Christopher Graney on Galileo
Christopher Graney talk about Galileo.
2016
-
6 August 2016
Sublime Plugins for Pandoc
My recommendations for Sublime slugins for writers who use Pandoc.
-
11 July 2016
Pandoc
Intro to Pandoc, and why it is useful for writers.
2015
-
7 October 2015
Electric Archeology Open Notebook
Link to Shawn Graham at Electric Archeology.
-
17 September 2015
The Why and the Wherefore
Chronological association of notes by using Git.
-
12 September 2015
Definition Lists
Using markdown's definition lists in LaTeX output.
-
12 September 2015
Chicago CSL
How to get nicely styled Chicago footnotes in your LaTeX output with Pandoc.
-
10 September 2015
Git for Zettelkasten
Using Git with my zettlekasten
-
7 September 2015
Class Info in Pandoc and LaTeX
How to get typical student info into your LaTeX output using Pandoc's metadata.
-
13 August 2015
Review from Taking Note Blog
A link to some comments on the Taking Note blog regarding my setup.
-
12 August 2015
Review from Christian Tietze
A link to Christian Tietze's helpful blog about Zettlekasten.
-
11 August 2015
Going From Reading To Notes
My process of taking reading notes and getting them into my zettlekasten.
-
10 August 2015
Sertillanges - What I Think
'I read, and I write while reading; but...'
-
10 August 2015
Reading Notes
-
10 August 2015
Jekyll Post Plugin
A little plugin I wrote for using Jekyll with Sublime.
-
5 August 2015
One Thought Per Note
The advantages of making many small notes with one thought in each.
-
3 August 2015
Sublime Syntax Definition
My own Sublime syntax definition that includes zettlekasten linmks.
-
1 July 2015
Zettelkasten Goes to Use
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my zettlekasten set up.
-
1 July 2015
Electric Archaeology
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my Skim to Markdown scripts.
-
13 May 2015
My Footnote Plugin
A plugin I wrote for Sublime that makes unique footnote references across multiple files.
-
11 May 2015
My Zettelkasten in Sublime
The way that I have my Zettlekasten set up in Sublime.
-
5 May 2015
The Zettelkasten Method
-
14 January 2015
A Weird "You" in Aristotle
An odd switch to the second person in a juicy Aristotle quote.
2014
-
29 December 2014
Von Hildebrand on Machine Culture
Dietrich von Hildebrand objects to the mechanization of the person.
-
7 November 2014
Merton on Theology
Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
-
2 August 2014
The Notebook
Pictures and description of the notebook and manual system I use.
-
28 July 2014
Chronological Association
The use of being able to place your notes within the chronological stream of your thoughts.
-
26 July 2014
Notebook Annotation
A description of the way that I go back and annotate my notebooks.
-
21 July 2014
Two Goals of Note-taking
I argue that we should separate out what I call engagement notes from memory notes.
-
13 July 2014
Skim and BibDesk Wrap-up
All my posts on Skim and BibDesk organized in one place.
-
12 July 2014
Search BibDesk
A script I wrote to seach BibDesk with a hotkey from anywhere.
-
9 July 2014
BibDesk and LaTeX Citations
Using BibDesk to keep all your bibliographic info for automatically generated footnotes in LaTeX.
-
8 July 2014
Intro to BibDesk
An introductory description of BibDesk, a program that allows you to store all your bibliographic info.
-
7 July 2014
Exporting Skim Notes
A little script I wrote for getting all your Skim notes into a single nicely formated markdown file.
-
6 July 2014
Levels of Reading
Thoughts on distinguishing different depths of reading and adjusting your habits accordingly.
-
5 July 2014
Why I Use Skim
The advantages of this wonderful PDF reader form OSX.
-
4 July 2014
Marginal Note Properties in Skim
A script I wrote for adjusting the width of marginal text notes in Skim.
-
3 July 2014
Skim Links
A script I wrote that for generating a Pandoc-style citation with an automatically generated link to the right page in Skim.
-
2 July 2014
Custom Skim URLs
Describes how to set up system-wide OSX urls for each PDF based on bibliographic info.
-
28 June 2014
Academic Plain Text
A link to a very good introduction for getting up and running with using markdown for academic writing.
-
26 June 2014
Unbelief is Disobedience
Leslie Newbigin explains the connection between faith and obedience.
-
26 June 2014
Risky Love
Vladimir Lossky describes the risk involved in God's love.
-
26 June 2014
Gilson on Deism
Gilson describes the 'ghost of the Christian God' found in Deism.
In this post I explore the interesting interplay between the concepts of Logos and Cosmos. A Cosmos is an ordered arrangement of elements, which requires a source or cause for this order. Hence, Logos can be understood as the principle of organization for any Cosmos.
We should hold carefully apart two meanings of the philosophical term substance. (i) the essence or whatness of a thing and (ii) the real distinct subsistence of a thing.
Jordan Peterson's use of Jungian archetypes brings him close to the kind of metaphysical realism we see in Christian Platonism---close, but not quite there.
The last two weekends, I preached for both Lexington Christian Fellowship and Jessamine Christian Fellowship on the Kingdom of the Heavens in the Gospel of Matthew.
-
10 December 2019
Religious Experience and Brain Activity
Even if we could establish a tight connection between religious experience and activity in a certain region of the brain, this would not prove religious experience to be illusory.
-
3 December 2019
Guilt by Association
We should not judge philosophical ideas or practices based on a surface similarity to unchristian systems of thought. Rather we should look out for substantive corruptions to the truth.
-
16 November 2019
Hildebrand on Sin and Sanctity
The opposite of the self-righteous man is not the sinner but the saint. The saint can be humble in his righteousness only because he walks in a deep awareness of grace.
-
9 October 2019
Traditionalism
Traditionalism is best understood as an orientation toward the timeless truth rather than an attachment to old ideas simply because they are old.
-
4 September 2019
Two Personalisms
We must distinguish the "Christian perosonalist" movement from what some philosophers call "theistic personalism" in contrast to "classical theism."
-
24 July 2019
What are the Forms?
Following the last post on the meaning of Platonism, I here flesh out the idea of transcendent Forms as intelligible structures that keep showing up again and again in the world of our experience.
-
27 June 2019
What I Mean by Platonism
Platonism has come to mean different things to different scholars. When I call myself a Platonist, I mean that I believe in the Forms, that I believe in real, eternal, immaterial, intelligible structures beyond the world of sense.
-
20 June 2019
Enjoying God
Gloomy Christianity develops because people learn to associate enjoyment with sin. The solution is not more games in church, but rather a revelation of God's beauty.
-
10 June 2019
Conservatism and Ideology
Ideologies are overly simplistic views of the world, which support themselves through slogans. While slogans may be practically indispensable in a democracy, conservatism is something more.
-
4 June 2019
Know Thyself
The Christian notion of self-knowledge is a long way off from New Age self-realization and not quite the same as the pagan Greek original either.
-
30 May 2019
Eros Comes from Beauty Beheld
I often encounter Christians who feel guilty because they seem to lack a certain fire or zeal in their pursuit of what they know to be true. I argue they can remedy this by recognizing a link between the psychology of eros and the time they spend imaginatively beholding the beauty of God.
-
28 May 2019
Apparently Anselm is Convincing
Teaching Anselm recently, I discovered that many of my students found the ontological argument very convincing. I think this has to do with the way older authors are presented.
2018
-
11 June 2018
No Such Thing As Subjective Truth
Just some casual reflections that I had after a friendly discussion resulted in my arguing that "subjective truth" was an oxymoron.
-
9 May 2018
Justin Martyr on the Trinity
Justin Martyr has a surprisingly developed understanding of Trinitarian doctrine for someone writing in the first half of the second century.
-
11 April 2018
Mission, Power, Authority, and the Holy Spirit
Here is the text of the sermon I preached at LCF and JCF this weekend on four themes in the book of Acts.
-
5 April 2018
Athens and Jerusalem Talk
I'm giving a talk at the Athens and Jerusalem Conference in Lawrenceburg KY on Saturday, April 7, 2018. The talk will be on the Platonic conception of the self as the soul, especially in the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, and how this is different from the Christian conception. Anyone interested is invited.
-
5 February 2018
Job Teaching
Sermon delivered giving an overview of the book of Job at LCF on 2017-12-30.
2017
-
26 November 2017
Screwtape the Christian Personalist
Uncle Screwtape reveals a deeply personalistic understanding of good and evil.
-
23 November 2017
The Logos and Jordan Peterson
Reflection on the difference between my own understanding of the logos and Jordan Petersons.
-
30 September 2017
Narnian Platonism
I just finished reading all the Narnia books to my kids and ran across this wonderful bit about Plato...
-
16 September 2017
A Strong Claim from Zizioulas
Metropolitan John Zizioulas puts in a particularly striking way the historical claim that I am working on in my current book project.
-
14 September 2017
Culture of Repudiation
Roger Scruton identifies a feature of academic life that has become singularly disagreeable to me.
-
20 July 2017
Description of Early Christians to Diognetus
I ran across this beautiful description of the early Christians in the Letter to Diognetus while reading the first volume of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. If only we could be true to this description, how much better salted would the world be by our presence?
-
16 July 2017
Sincerity Formulated into Dogma
James Russell Lowell explains that passion and sincerity are not enough.
-
28 May 2017
Simplicity Leads to Despotism
Russell Kirk explains the connection between ideological simplicity and despotism.
-
27 May 2017
Spirit vs. Flesh in Romans 8
Here is the presentation for the sermon at the CF churches this weekend.
-
20 May 2017
Gratitude
My address at the 2017 Mars Hill graduation.
-
18 May 2017
Whittaker Chambers on Writing and Inertia
By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia.
-
18 May 2017
Burke on Moral Order
The awful Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence...
-
17 May 2017
Touchstone Review
My review of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Liturgy and Personality appeared in Touchstone.
-
16 May 2017
Christopher Graney on Galileo
Christopher Graney talk about Galileo.
2016
-
6 August 2016
Sublime Plugins for Pandoc
My recommendations for Sublime slugins for writers who use Pandoc.
-
11 July 2016
Pandoc
Intro to Pandoc, and why it is useful for writers.
2015
-
7 October 2015
Electric Archeology Open Notebook
Link to Shawn Graham at Electric Archeology.
-
17 September 2015
The Why and the Wherefore
Chronological association of notes by using Git.
-
12 September 2015
Definition Lists
Using markdown's definition lists in LaTeX output.
-
12 September 2015
Chicago CSL
How to get nicely styled Chicago footnotes in your LaTeX output with Pandoc.
-
10 September 2015
Git for Zettelkasten
Using Git with my zettlekasten
-
7 September 2015
Class Info in Pandoc and LaTeX
How to get typical student info into your LaTeX output using Pandoc's metadata.
-
13 August 2015
Review from Taking Note Blog
A link to some comments on the Taking Note blog regarding my setup.
-
12 August 2015
Review from Christian Tietze
A link to Christian Tietze's helpful blog about Zettlekasten.
-
11 August 2015
Going From Reading To Notes
My process of taking reading notes and getting them into my zettlekasten.
-
10 August 2015
Sertillanges - What I Think
'I read, and I write while reading; but...'
-
10 August 2015
Reading Notes
-
10 August 2015
Jekyll Post Plugin
A little plugin I wrote for using Jekyll with Sublime.
-
5 August 2015
One Thought Per Note
The advantages of making many small notes with one thought in each.
-
3 August 2015
Sublime Syntax Definition
My own Sublime syntax definition that includes zettlekasten linmks.
-
1 July 2015
Zettelkasten Goes to Use
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my zettlekasten set up.
-
1 July 2015
Electric Archaeology
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my Skim to Markdown scripts.
-
13 May 2015
My Footnote Plugin
A plugin I wrote for Sublime that makes unique footnote references across multiple files.
-
11 May 2015
My Zettelkasten in Sublime
The way that I have my Zettlekasten set up in Sublime.
-
5 May 2015
The Zettelkasten Method
-
14 January 2015
A Weird "You" in Aristotle
An odd switch to the second person in a juicy Aristotle quote.
2014
-
29 December 2014
Von Hildebrand on Machine Culture
Dietrich von Hildebrand objects to the mechanization of the person.
-
7 November 2014
Merton on Theology
Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
-
2 August 2014
The Notebook
Pictures and description of the notebook and manual system I use.
-
28 July 2014
Chronological Association
The use of being able to place your notes within the chronological stream of your thoughts.
-
26 July 2014
Notebook Annotation
A description of the way that I go back and annotate my notebooks.
-
21 July 2014
Two Goals of Note-taking
I argue that we should separate out what I call engagement notes from memory notes.
-
13 July 2014
Skim and BibDesk Wrap-up
All my posts on Skim and BibDesk organized in one place.
-
12 July 2014
Search BibDesk
A script I wrote to seach BibDesk with a hotkey from anywhere.
-
9 July 2014
BibDesk and LaTeX Citations
Using BibDesk to keep all your bibliographic info for automatically generated footnotes in LaTeX.
-
8 July 2014
Intro to BibDesk
An introductory description of BibDesk, a program that allows you to store all your bibliographic info.
-
7 July 2014
Exporting Skim Notes
A little script I wrote for getting all your Skim notes into a single nicely formated markdown file.
-
6 July 2014
Levels of Reading
Thoughts on distinguishing different depths of reading and adjusting your habits accordingly.
-
5 July 2014
Why I Use Skim
The advantages of this wonderful PDF reader form OSX.
-
4 July 2014
Marginal Note Properties in Skim
A script I wrote for adjusting the width of marginal text notes in Skim.
-
3 July 2014
Skim Links
A script I wrote that for generating a Pandoc-style citation with an automatically generated link to the right page in Skim.
-
2 July 2014
Custom Skim URLs
Describes how to set up system-wide OSX urls for each PDF based on bibliographic info.
-
28 June 2014
Academic Plain Text
A link to a very good introduction for getting up and running with using markdown for academic writing.
-
26 June 2014
Unbelief is Disobedience
Leslie Newbigin explains the connection between faith and obedience.
-
26 June 2014
Risky Love
Vladimir Lossky describes the risk involved in God's love.
-
26 June 2014
Gilson on Deism
Gilson describes the 'ghost of the Christian God' found in Deism.
Just some casual reflections that I had after a friendly discussion resulted in my arguing that "subjective truth" was an oxymoron.
Justin Martyr has a surprisingly developed understanding of Trinitarian doctrine for someone writing in the first half of the second century.
Here is the text of the sermon I preached at LCF and JCF this weekend on four themes in the book of Acts.
I'm giving a talk at the Athens and Jerusalem Conference in Lawrenceburg KY on Saturday, April 7, 2018. The talk will be on the Platonic conception of the self as the soul, especially in the Phaedo and the Phaedrus, and how this is different from the Christian conception. Anyone interested is invited.
Sermon delivered giving an overview of the book of Job at LCF on 2017-12-30.
-
26 November 2017
Screwtape the Christian Personalist
Uncle Screwtape reveals a deeply personalistic understanding of good and evil.
-
23 November 2017
The Logos and Jordan Peterson
Reflection on the difference between my own understanding of the logos and Jordan Petersons.
-
30 September 2017
Narnian Platonism
I just finished reading all the Narnia books to my kids and ran across this wonderful bit about Plato...
-
16 September 2017
A Strong Claim from Zizioulas
Metropolitan John Zizioulas puts in a particularly striking way the historical claim that I am working on in my current book project.
-
14 September 2017
Culture of Repudiation
Roger Scruton identifies a feature of academic life that has become singularly disagreeable to me.
-
20 July 2017
Description of Early Christians to Diognetus
I ran across this beautiful description of the early Christians in the Letter to Diognetus while reading the first volume of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. If only we could be true to this description, how much better salted would the world be by our presence?
-
16 July 2017
Sincerity Formulated into Dogma
James Russell Lowell explains that passion and sincerity are not enough.
-
28 May 2017
Simplicity Leads to Despotism
Russell Kirk explains the connection between ideological simplicity and despotism.
-
27 May 2017
Spirit vs. Flesh in Romans 8
Here is the presentation for the sermon at the CF churches this weekend.
-
20 May 2017
Gratitude
My address at the 2017 Mars Hill graduation.
-
18 May 2017
Whittaker Chambers on Writing and Inertia
By simply picking up a pen, things can be done, if we have the will to overcome inertia.
-
18 May 2017
Burke on Moral Order
The awful Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence...
-
17 May 2017
Touchstone Review
My review of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Liturgy and Personality appeared in Touchstone.
-
16 May 2017
Christopher Graney on Galileo
Christopher Graney talk about Galileo.
2016
-
6 August 2016
Sublime Plugins for Pandoc
My recommendations for Sublime slugins for writers who use Pandoc.
-
11 July 2016
Pandoc
Intro to Pandoc, and why it is useful for writers.
2015
-
7 October 2015
Electric Archeology Open Notebook
Link to Shawn Graham at Electric Archeology.
-
17 September 2015
The Why and the Wherefore
Chronological association of notes by using Git.
-
12 September 2015
Definition Lists
Using markdown's definition lists in LaTeX output.
-
12 September 2015
Chicago CSL
How to get nicely styled Chicago footnotes in your LaTeX output with Pandoc.
-
10 September 2015
Git for Zettelkasten
Using Git with my zettlekasten
-
7 September 2015
Class Info in Pandoc and LaTeX
How to get typical student info into your LaTeX output using Pandoc's metadata.
-
13 August 2015
Review from Taking Note Blog
A link to some comments on the Taking Note blog regarding my setup.
-
12 August 2015
Review from Christian Tietze
A link to Christian Tietze's helpful blog about Zettlekasten.
-
11 August 2015
Going From Reading To Notes
My process of taking reading notes and getting them into my zettlekasten.
-
10 August 2015
Sertillanges - What I Think
'I read, and I write while reading; but...'
-
10 August 2015
Reading Notes
-
10 August 2015
Jekyll Post Plugin
A little plugin I wrote for using Jekyll with Sublime.
-
5 August 2015
One Thought Per Note
The advantages of making many small notes with one thought in each.
-
3 August 2015
Sublime Syntax Definition
My own Sublime syntax definition that includes zettlekasten linmks.
-
1 July 2015
Zettelkasten Goes to Use
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my zettlekasten set up.
-
1 July 2015
Electric Archaeology
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my Skim to Markdown scripts.
-
13 May 2015
My Footnote Plugin
A plugin I wrote for Sublime that makes unique footnote references across multiple files.
-
11 May 2015
My Zettelkasten in Sublime
The way that I have my Zettlekasten set up in Sublime.
-
5 May 2015
The Zettelkasten Method
-
14 January 2015
A Weird "You" in Aristotle
An odd switch to the second person in a juicy Aristotle quote.
2014
-
29 December 2014
Von Hildebrand on Machine Culture
Dietrich von Hildebrand objects to the mechanization of the person.
-
7 November 2014
Merton on Theology
Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
-
2 August 2014
The Notebook
Pictures and description of the notebook and manual system I use.
-
28 July 2014
Chronological Association
The use of being able to place your notes within the chronological stream of your thoughts.
-
26 July 2014
Notebook Annotation
A description of the way that I go back and annotate my notebooks.
-
21 July 2014
Two Goals of Note-taking
I argue that we should separate out what I call engagement notes from memory notes.
-
13 July 2014
Skim and BibDesk Wrap-up
All my posts on Skim and BibDesk organized in one place.
-
12 July 2014
Search BibDesk
A script I wrote to seach BibDesk with a hotkey from anywhere.
-
9 July 2014
BibDesk and LaTeX Citations
Using BibDesk to keep all your bibliographic info for automatically generated footnotes in LaTeX.
-
8 July 2014
Intro to BibDesk
An introductory description of BibDesk, a program that allows you to store all your bibliographic info.
-
7 July 2014
Exporting Skim Notes
A little script I wrote for getting all your Skim notes into a single nicely formated markdown file.
-
6 July 2014
Levels of Reading
Thoughts on distinguishing different depths of reading and adjusting your habits accordingly.
-
5 July 2014
Why I Use Skim
The advantages of this wonderful PDF reader form OSX.
-
4 July 2014
Marginal Note Properties in Skim
A script I wrote for adjusting the width of marginal text notes in Skim.
-
3 July 2014
Skim Links
A script I wrote that for generating a Pandoc-style citation with an automatically generated link to the right page in Skim.
-
2 July 2014
Custom Skim URLs
Describes how to set up system-wide OSX urls for each PDF based on bibliographic info.
-
28 June 2014
Academic Plain Text
A link to a very good introduction for getting up and running with using markdown for academic writing.
-
26 June 2014
Unbelief is Disobedience
Leslie Newbigin explains the connection between faith and obedience.
-
26 June 2014
Risky Love
Vladimir Lossky describes the risk involved in God's love.
-
26 June 2014
Gilson on Deism
Gilson describes the 'ghost of the Christian God' found in Deism.
My recommendations for Sublime slugins for writers who use Pandoc.
Intro to Pandoc, and why it is useful for writers.
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7 October 2015
Electric Archeology Open Notebook
Link to Shawn Graham at Electric Archeology.
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17 September 2015
The Why and the Wherefore
Chronological association of notes by using Git.
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12 September 2015
Definition Lists
Using markdown's definition lists in LaTeX output.
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12 September 2015
Chicago CSL
How to get nicely styled Chicago footnotes in your LaTeX output with Pandoc.
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10 September 2015
Git for Zettelkasten
Using Git with my zettlekasten
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7 September 2015
Class Info in Pandoc and LaTeX
How to get typical student info into your LaTeX output using Pandoc's metadata.
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13 August 2015
Review from Taking Note Blog
A link to some comments on the Taking Note blog regarding my setup.
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12 August 2015
Review from Christian Tietze
A link to Christian Tietze's helpful blog about Zettlekasten.
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11 August 2015
Going From Reading To Notes
My process of taking reading notes and getting them into my zettlekasten.
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10 August 2015
Sertillanges - What I Think
'I read, and I write while reading; but...'
- 10 August 2015 Reading Notes
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10 August 2015
Jekyll Post Plugin
A little plugin I wrote for using Jekyll with Sublime.
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5 August 2015
One Thought Per Note
The advantages of making many small notes with one thought in each.
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3 August 2015
Sublime Syntax Definition
My own Sublime syntax definition that includes zettlekasten linmks.
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1 July 2015
Zettelkasten Goes to Use
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my zettlekasten set up.
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1 July 2015
Electric Archaeology
A link to Shawn Graham who is using my Skim to Markdown scripts.
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13 May 2015
My Footnote Plugin
A plugin I wrote for Sublime that makes unique footnote references across multiple files.
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11 May 2015
My Zettelkasten in Sublime
The way that I have my Zettlekasten set up in Sublime.
- 5 May 2015 The Zettelkasten Method
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14 January 2015
A Weird "You" in Aristotle
An odd switch to the second person in a juicy Aristotle quote.
2014
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29 December 2014
Von Hildebrand on Machine Culture
Dietrich von Hildebrand objects to the mechanization of the person.
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7 November 2014
Merton on Theology
Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
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2 August 2014
The Notebook
Pictures and description of the notebook and manual system I use.
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28 July 2014
Chronological Association
The use of being able to place your notes within the chronological stream of your thoughts.
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26 July 2014
Notebook Annotation
A description of the way that I go back and annotate my notebooks.
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21 July 2014
Two Goals of Note-taking
I argue that we should separate out what I call engagement notes from memory notes.
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13 July 2014
Skim and BibDesk Wrap-up
All my posts on Skim and BibDesk organized in one place.
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12 July 2014
Search BibDesk
A script I wrote to seach BibDesk with a hotkey from anywhere.
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9 July 2014
BibDesk and LaTeX Citations
Using BibDesk to keep all your bibliographic info for automatically generated footnotes in LaTeX.
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8 July 2014
Intro to BibDesk
An introductory description of BibDesk, a program that allows you to store all your bibliographic info.
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7 July 2014
Exporting Skim Notes
A little script I wrote for getting all your Skim notes into a single nicely formated markdown file.
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6 July 2014
Levels of Reading
Thoughts on distinguishing different depths of reading and adjusting your habits accordingly.
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5 July 2014
Why I Use Skim
The advantages of this wonderful PDF reader form OSX.
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4 July 2014
Marginal Note Properties in Skim
A script I wrote for adjusting the width of marginal text notes in Skim.
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3 July 2014
Skim Links
A script I wrote that for generating a Pandoc-style citation with an automatically generated link to the right page in Skim.
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2 July 2014
Custom Skim URLs
Describes how to set up system-wide OSX urls for each PDF based on bibliographic info.
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28 June 2014
Academic Plain Text
A link to a very good introduction for getting up and running with using markdown for academic writing.
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26 June 2014
Unbelief is Disobedience
Leslie Newbigin explains the connection between faith and obedience.
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26 June 2014
Risky Love
Vladimir Lossky describes the risk involved in God's love.
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26 June 2014
Gilson on Deism
Gilson describes the 'ghost of the Christian God' found in Deism.
Dietrich von Hildebrand objects to the mechanization of the person.
Thomas Merton claims that theology must be based in personal relationship.
Pictures and description of the notebook and manual system I use.
The use of being able to place your notes within the chronological stream of your thoughts.
A description of the way that I go back and annotate my notebooks.
I argue that we should separate out what I call engagement notes from memory notes.
All my posts on Skim and BibDesk organized in one place.
A script I wrote to seach BibDesk with a hotkey from anywhere.
Using BibDesk to keep all your bibliographic info for automatically generated footnotes in LaTeX.
An introductory description of BibDesk, a program that allows you to store all your bibliographic info.
A little script I wrote for getting all your Skim notes into a single nicely formated markdown file.
Thoughts on distinguishing different depths of reading and adjusting your habits accordingly.
The advantages of this wonderful PDF reader form OSX.
A script I wrote for adjusting the width of marginal text notes in Skim.
A script I wrote that for generating a Pandoc-style citation with an automatically generated link to the right page in Skim.
Describes how to set up system-wide OSX urls for each PDF based on bibliographic info.
A link to a very good introduction for getting up and running with using markdown for academic writing.
Leslie Newbigin explains the connection between faith and obedience.
Vladimir Lossky describes the risk involved in God's love.
Gilson describes the 'ghost of the Christian God' found in Deism.