My backyard with vacation reading, Venus, moon globe and Buddha . . .

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My name is Andrew James Brown. I’m a philosophically/theologically inclined writer with sympathies towards Imaoka Shin’ichirō's understanding of a creative, free spirituality (jiyū shūkyō 自由宗教), Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Christian atheism, D. G. Leahy’s “thinking now occurring for the first time”, a Lucretian inspired religious naturalism, new materialism and Kyoto School philosophy; also a photographer, cyclist, walker and jazz bass player. In addition to this, I’m the minister of a small, liberal, free religious community in Cambridge (UK)

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Yewtree said…
Nice photo but I can't see the Buddha.
12 August 2009 at 13:25
Yewtree said…
Oh yes, I can see him in the larger version of the photo!
13 August 2009 at 16:56
G Dodd said…
What books are you reading?
15 August 2009 at 12:09
Andrew James Brown said…
Well, on the table is Andrew Chaikin's "A Man on the Moon" (an excellent overview of the Apollo missions - hence the moon globe which I was using to keep myself orientated), my Bible and Ernst Bloch's fine "Atheism in Christianity". Not in the picture are the three volumes of Bloch's magnum opus "The Principle of Hope" and Jonathan Lear's book "Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation". So a cheery book there. For some lighter reading I've just finished Andrew Smith's "Moondust" - a meditation on the meaning of the moonlandings.

There you are, not sure this says much of use but it is what I'm reading.
16 August 2009 at 16:07
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