Didn't watnt to start a new thread, so I hope Flick and Pierce will forgive me for sliding this in here, as it comes from Pierce colleague at BT:
FTR, agree with Flick on this one; grand opinion piece by Pierce only to be trumped in the Sept issue by the Hardy Clemons Interview.
I hope Flick points out to Effie the name of Hardy's shirt in the photo. Tee Thomas will be proud.
Response to Cartledge blog of Oct 1 on Religious IQ
I'm trying to upgrade my Religious IQ with reading Diarmand MacCulloch's magisterial First 3,000 years of Christianity. I'm in good company as the work is endorsed by President Clinton's Oxford Roommate Strobe Talbot and Chattanooga, Tn native, Newsweek editor and biographer of Andrew Jackson: Jon Meacham.
900 pages plus so it may take me a while. I have a quote from page 51 at my blog I want Judge Pressler to read so maybe he will apologize to Jack Flanders before he,Pressler, leaves this world.
The Segment on Masters of Suspcicion is grand. I hope the word gets out to Campbell, Duke Div and the BTSR and grows from there.
Not Berdyaev, but another fellow from that era; I need to bone up on him a little as well.
That said, the conversation for me now pretty much starts with James Wood's The Broken Estate, Essays on Literature and Belief. Much less is in some ways beside the point unless Fleming Rutledge footnoted it somewhere in one of her grand sermons.
I may temper these remarks later.