We. What is meant by this word? I’ve noticed that lately I keep hearing the word “we†in contexts that I’m fairly sure doesn’t include Me. “We the American people seek to secure our freedom from terrorism,†but I am a Christian sojourning in America, and my freedom was secured 2,000 years ago by Christ. [...]
Before Constantine, one knew as a fact of everyday experience that there was a believing Christian community but one had to “take it on faith†that God as governing history. After Constantine, one had to believe without seeing that there was a community of Believers, within the larger nominally Christian mass, but one knew for [...]
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Set in the late 19th century, Harold Frederick’s The Damnation of Theron Ware, or Illumination, describes the life of Theron Ware, a small town methodist minister. Narrated via a series of interwoven relationships, Rev. Ware finds himself on a journey of self-realization that forces him to investigate the intersection of faith, knowledge and desire. This [...]
I came downstairs this morning to discover that Stitch had carefully wrapped himself up in his favorite blanket on the couch. I think it’s stitch’s way of telling me to shut the windows at night, fall is coming.
This evening while working on typing up notes on the Damnation of Theron Ware (forthcoming) my roommate bounded down the stairs exuberantly. This itself isn’t anything new, Bryan is quite the exuberant one. This time however, he came down in a child’s Darth Vader costume. This being October I wasn’t terribly surprised. What surprised me [...]
I love my cats. Stitch is always there to purr a bad day away and Dharma’s “PET ME NOW!†meow is a delightful tidbit of high maintenance. Despite my love for my companions, I’ve always been bothered by their bathroom habits. You see cats like to use the restroom all the time. I only feed [...]
When I was young, someone told me God was in the Rain
Then I saw Charlie and Katrina
When I was older, someone told me God was in the wind
Tornados twisted that idea across the dusty plains.
College led me to read the story of Elijah
God was in a still small voice.
But the wind and rain drowned [...]
In Why God Became Man, Anselm argues that God necessarily became a man to affect salvation. Anselm’s argument begins with the assertion that God must punish sin as an assertion of his just sovereignty. Furthermore, Anselm argues, humanity must voluntarily obey God. Since humanity already owes this perfect obeidence, and because humanity has sinned, humanity [...]
During Womanist / Feminist Ethics yesterday our visiting lecturer began with a discussion on a new type of feminist hermeneutic. Rather than a hermeneutic of charity, or a hermeneutic of suspicion, Sara introduced a hermeneutic of struggle. Framed in reference to the story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel/God in Genesis 32, She outlines the [...]
Near the end of the Matrix, Neo stands in front of an open door and squares of for those precious few matrix seconds while Agent Smith fires several shots into Neo’s body. Yet as we all know Neo isn’t dead, and shortly there after Neo rises from the floor. For the first time the scene [...]
There are two main principle reasons that remembering is a key aspect of sharing within the context of Eucharist. First, there is the idea that remembering re-orients the life of the Church. Much as a compass points both to the north as well as the south by identifying, or remembering, the way north; so the [...]
Alice isn’t her real name. The records have all the pertinent information. Born 15 years ago. Died last monday. A natural beauty, her future projected forward on runways in New York and Paris. Friends say she was smiling and laughing at school. They remember her perfume smelling like vanilla. Her friends spoke this evening about [...]
