by Kurt Knecht | Mar 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sitting at home instead of on a plane to Ireland today. All the gigs have been cancelled. All the international trips have been cancelled. So I hit a downward spiral and listened to Robert Wrights interview with Steven Pinker. There is hardly a thinker alive that...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Normally, Jonathan Sacks is one of my favorite thinkers, and he’s also normally pretty careful. He gets a couple things wrong in his recent essay. I’ve reprinted part of it below. “Some measure of the radicalism that is introduced into the world by...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Listened to Robert Wright interview Galen Strawson about pan-psychism. I think David Bentley Hart is correct on this. The pan-psychists are trying to solve the problem by mashing it down to the sub-atomic level, but it’s really just a shell game. The horizon is...
by Kurt Knecht | Dec 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Here is the first collection of videos from this year. It’s my side of the contributions. John Conahan and I will work on some more to make them more easily available. I started with a Liszt O Tannebaum. I borrowed a little from Liebestraum. Next I tried a...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Once upon a time, I was practicing the organ at St. Mark’s on the Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska. Unbeknownst to me, a stranger wandered off the street, and he managed to make his way, silently, up to the organ loft. I was in the middle of a passage that was giving...
by Kurt Knecht | Jul 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was not many verses ago that Luke was telling us about Peter weeping bitterly after his denial. David Bentley Hart rightly points out that this is a big deal for Christian aesthetics. In the classical world, a minor peasant character wouldn’t have a personal...
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