This Christmas I’ve received many gifts. I received an macbook pro, a portable laptop desk/case, two pairs of shoes, shirts, pants, gift cards, cash, and other odds and ends. I come from so much privilege I literally don’t know what to do with it. I receive this with a sick feeling in my stomach and [...]
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Christmas Reminiscing
Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Hermeneutic of Beauty
Posted in Uncategorized on December 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It is not a matter of reading the right books, but reading (whatever you read) rightly. A text is relevant, if you make it relevant; it is profound, if you make it profound. As we read a text, we do so as a subject and our subjectivity provides a context for that act of reading [...]
The Foolishness of the Irish
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(From Peter Rollin’s Blog)
There was once a British army base located in a tiny town in rural Northern Ireland. The story goes that each time a new battalion of soldiers arrived to do their tour of duty one of the resident Officers would show them a trick that could be played on the hapless locals.
When [...]
Take up your post
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The world is in a state of great peril and its only hope lies in the teaching of a long lost rabbi and the competitive strategy of his followers. Some have thought it prudent to speak of success in terms of a pragmatic nihilism – this popular view has taken the form of phrases like [...]
Missing the Game
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There was once a basketball player who loved to practice, in fact, he loved practice so much that he neglected the games, just to practice.
There was once a student who loved to study, in fact, she loved studying so much that she neglected her tests, just to study.
There was once a man who loved his [...]
Immediate Obedience
Posted in Uncategorized on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forcing things to make sense before walking into them is not, as I believed for so long, the only way that I am justifiably held accountable to move and act – in fact, sometimes it is precisely because we don’t understand why God would do something that it allows God to be given glory. I [...]
The Bedlam
Posted in Uncategorized on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the couple had set out to create the restaurant on their lot, there had been nothing but vast empty wasteland; rusted nails and rebar, deteriorated wooden boards, burned dry-wall from a gas station which had been razed by fire long before. During the day it was entirely covered by shadows of the heightened Babylonian-structured [...]
Desire, Happiness, Pleasure
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Desire reflects the focused interest in a goal object and the drive to obtain it. Happiness is an affective state linked to the appraisal that progress is being made. Pleasure, in comparison, is a positive response to obtaining the goal.” – Leyton, Marco
Our aim then is to desire one thing: to know the Father and [...]
Thomas Merton – The New Man (1)
Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life and death are at war within us. As soon as we are born, we begin at the same time to live and die.
Even though we may not be even slightly aware of it, this battle of life and death goes on in us inexorably and without mercy. If by chance we become fully conscious [...]
Encountering God
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the introduction to an essay I’m working on entitled “Worshipful Ostentation as a Theological Methodology”
“The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?”
- Psalm 27: 1
It is in the contempletive vacancy of mind, ever-reaching into the infinite, never clenching or [...]
