Just a quick post, then we’ll get back to the fun stuff:
♦ UofU’s SHIFT is bringing Austin Dacey, a former UN representative for the Center for Inquiry, to their campus to give a talk! So we thought we’d organize a carpool to go down there and support our fellows while enjoying a good speaker. The event starts promptly at 4pm on February 27, a Saturday. If you can provide rides or just want to tag along (and split gas :D ) please comment here or on Facebook with your status as a driver/rider.
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Thanks for your time!
I don’t know if I will be able to make it, but hearing Austin Dacey will be a treat for all who go. He is one of the few in the secular movement that is talking about the sorts of things that need to be talked about. I highly recommend his book ‘The Secular Conscience’. Even though I disagree with him on a number of important points, I find a lot to agree with when I read him. One theme in ‘The Secular Conscience’ is the problem of moral relativism and the need for secularists to take seriously public moral argument. In other words, even though he is ‘on your side’ and I am not, his book echoes many of the same sentiments I often share on this blog (the need for a positive account of secular humanism and her moral arguments).
Even the late great Father Richard John Neuhaus (who wrote a seminal book on religion in the public square called ‘The Naked Public Square’) lauds Dacey. Read his interesting review here:
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2008/03/the-secular-conscience
Kleiner, what haven’t you read? I’m impressed that you’ve read Dacey’s book. I recommended it to you over a year ago, but I don’t know if that was the impetus for your reading it. Glad you see you liked it. I have my copy autographed.
The list of things I have not read is very very very long. For every book I read on my list I add another 5. Plus I have the habit of rereading books instead of tackling new ones (some of this is unavoidable when teaching).
I’ll have to attend this to make up for my foolish missing of Kreeft’s talk just a while ago. I’ll gladly drive, my car can fit my self and either 4 or even 5 shafters, or 2 to 3 fellow Vikings. My car is both economical and appropriately blasphemous, though as a believer I’d say it also does both upon strong ground.
It is also sonically assertive, not through its machinery but through the musical voice it carries through me, so be prepared for some fun demolition of the sense 
*senses, bah.
Haha, thanks Will, I’ll count you in.
oh yeah, maybe Kleiner will see this but WORLD FUCKING CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!! How’s that for a comeback from a 10-0 deficit!
Graciousness, thy name is Blood and Ashes?