Thinking

I am spending the day reading Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling. It is a book about thinking. This use of my day strikes me as far less futile than the time I spent yesterday finishing Gaiman's Good Omens. Sire spends quite a bit of time on the need for unity between knowing and doing. "We only know what we act on. We only believe what we obey." He argues that this is the difference between the secular and the Christian intellectual: the secular intellectual can divorce knowing from doing, while the Christian intellectual must embody "known" truth in action and, in so doing, shows that he or she truly "knows."