Ugh.

So I set this thing up thinking I'd be able to write more expansively than I've done in other places about things I have banging around in my head.

That assumes, however, that you have the energy and motivation to write. A clever blog name is a start, but it isn't going to get anything done.

So what the hey. Here's a list of things I've collected that I'd like to write in depth about...

* Connection between bodily resurrection and baptism as spiritual resurrection. Baptism enables super-human acts of will.

* http://www.patheos.com/blogs/publiccatholic/2015/07/fights-broken-relationships-name-calling-and-hate-the-social-detritus-of-gay-marriage-piles-up/

* What is faith worth when confirmation bias for it is in play?

* Control vs. helplessness: superstition, religion, science, climate change.

* Cockroach Matrix: ethics, potential discoveries

* Are intelligibility and coherence of arguments important anymore? Or are we dealing with a non-Euclidean philosophy problem?

* https://thomism.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/truth-pt-1/

* http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/07/feyerabend-on-empiricism-and-sola.html

Maybe that'll give the hypothetical reader a sense of what interests me. Whether the writing actually materializes is a bit more uncertain.

Wot's all this, then?

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 1925

With all due respect to Chesterton, while living things can go against the flow I think it takes something else entirely to climb out of the stream altogether. Not brains necessarily, nor physical strength. I'm having trouble pinning it down, but there must be something.

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The preceding paragraphs were written several months ago... Upon re-reading then, the most likely candidate is Sanctifying Grace. Which means that my tag line probably needs significant readjustment.