As I sit down in the computer room (and not the editing bay, mind you) of the Los Angeles Film Studies Centered where my wife, Piper, is trying to jump into the network of the “Film Industry,” I feel prodigal. I haven’t introduced myself to this wonderful blogging group’s readers, though my name has [...]
Tags: History, knowledge, Narrative, religious education, spanish education
You knew it had to happen. The moment I decided to make TVA a group blog, my endemic capitalist disease of diversification was coming down the pike.
I love the way TVA is working out — the balance between things like Kenny’s post about the politics of the RC-Anglican thing, Joel’s musing about apocalyptic movies, and [...]
Tags: Anglican, Desire, diversification, longtime reader, new blog, news, Prospects, Robert Minto, stream of consciousness, The Anti-moderate, tva
A while back I added the subsection “Unpublishable Papers” to this site. So far I’ve posted nothing there — a condition soon to be remedied — but as a preface to it, I’m extending the following invitation to all readers of the blog:
Unpublishable Papers is to be a repository of manifestos. It is a venue [...]
Tags: blog, convictions, enacted perspective, intellectuals, manifestos, open invitation, preface, public consequences, repository
Entering “The Veil Away” as an author is an honor. Even before Robert and I became good friends I would be drawn to this blog time and time again. It has always offered an excellent example of theological, philosophical, and theoritical discourse. I earnestly hope to avoid spoiling the foundation already established.
A recent convert to [...]
Tags: adangerousconversation, blog, calvinism, Christian Reformed, Daniel Den Boer
Greetings, readers!
I am a senior at Dordt College in northwest Iowa, and God willing, I will graduate in May with a degree in political studies and communications. I grew up in the Christian Reformed Church, and from a young age took on the role of official apologist for Calvinism at my non-denominational Christian K-12 school. [...]
Hullo all!
Kenyon is my full name, but most call me Kenny. I’ve attained a ripe age of 21 years, most of them spent on a grain and cattle farm in beautiful Iowa. I’m a homebody and a farmboy, but have since become a bit of a world traveller. I’ve studied for a semester at Oxford University, [...]
Tags: bavarian alps, british landscapes, c s lewis, cattle farm, eclectic path, eiffel tower, frank sinatra, koine, linguistic theory, middle east correspondent, mountains in england, oktoberfest in germany, old dutchman, oxford university, raw fish, ripe age, smoked eel, taxi drivers, veldkamp, world traveller
The Veil Away is about to become a group blog. While maintaining its focus upon theology, philosophy, and cultural studies it will be expanded in several unique directions due to the expertise of its new co-contributors. Subjects like hermeneutics, science fiction, and linguistics, among others, will become more prominent. I will of course continue posting [...]
Tags: group blog, hermeneutics, jacob kroeze, joel veldkamp, kenny gradert, kroeze, linguistics, matt gerrelts, new energy, science fiction, Theology, tom swiftbird
Why in the world would I publish something as open to criticism as that last post?
While formulating my own critique of what I had said, I had to ask myself that question. The answer is that I have suddenly become impressed by the idea that the real danger of the kind of education I’m pursuing [...]
Tags: academic community, active life, apprenticeship, belief, convictions, critique, determinations, Education, fellow, freedom, intellectual life, Scholarship
It seems so.
Taking a break from only the second (I congratulate myself) all-nighter of this semester, I note the recent double-impingement of Dr. Johnson upon my life. First, I listened to the New York Review of Books’ podcast about the fellow, then I came across Jason Peters’ Front Porch Republic post about “Blogging and the [...]
Tags: Blogging, blogosphere, dialogue, discourse, dr johnson, jason peters, moralist, new york review of books, openness, periodic essay, Porch Republic, realism, rhetorical purpose, wisdom of the elders
Whilst googling recipes for bacon-wrapped sirloin and listening to Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy,” I took a break (out of frustration that I have no mustard on hand…) and did some blog-design browsing. (Blog-design browsing involves surfing around one’s favorite blogs and the blogs they link to, mainly ignoring content in order to examine their layout, color, [...]
Tags: 1930s, 1950s, Aesthetic, Blog-design, colophon, current design, Desoeuvre, grid layout, hawley, leonard cohen, modernism, mustard, Pete Hawley, plan59, sans serif font
