Just for Southern Beale.

Me and Future Mrs. Geor3ge.

[retreats back into obscurity...]

Offline

For the three of you who still check in to this e-rag, I'll be offline for a little bit while the Future Mrs. and I pack up our belongings and get ready to move yet again. (The third time since '04 now.) Once we're settled I'll be starting my new life as a church music director and piano teacher in north Jersey, a prospect I relish after having had both feet in the corporate world since moving to Indiana. Once we're settled I may or may not resume normal blogging activities, or I'll scrap this one entirely and move to WordPress. Depends how I feel.

So, a happy new year to you all, and I'll meet you on the other side of the moving van.

Heh.

Iz 4legs' birfday?

For Rmj.

Inspired by this post.

Update: okay, some heads are still scratching, and the link is atmittedly long. Here's the money quote:

He [Fraser] is embarrassed by “stupid” Christians thinking they know more
about the nature of the universe than clever atheists like Dawkins.

Ask him to prove that God exists – one of the subjects of his philosophy
lectures at Oxford – and he cheerfully admits that he can’t. He goes further:
“The so-called proofs of God’s existence are all rubbish.”

Ask him if the resurrection of Jesus Christ really happened and he says:
“Umm . . . dunno . . . can’t prove it.”

Ask him about evangelical Christians and he snorts: “Evangelicals have misunderstood the Bible. They turn it into some bloody Ikea manual.”

Proofs of God's existence: well, I'm at risk of running that flat into the ground. Fraser is right: they are all rubbish. The more interesting question to me has become: why do we care about them? I have an answer or two; but I'm still knocking them into presentable form.The resurrection? I consider that a confessional topic. I can't prove it; but I don't need to. Whether or not you confess it (i.e., believe it) is irrelevant to me, if we're going to argue about it. I'm not an apologist for it. And as for evangelicals turning the Bible into an "IKEA manual," well that's just lovely. I'm keeping that.

More nephew blogging.

Future Mrs. G and the boy. They're both pretty cute, no?

Nephew blogging.

Future Mrs. Geor3ge is an aunt.

Help her welcome Nicholas Joseph Carlozzi to the world. He was born at 4:36 AM on September 2nd, weighing in at a whopping 7 lbs. 14 oz., 20 inches long.



Welcome aboard, little man.