Colosians 3:3-4 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. When it comes to the Spiritual life and the spiritual disciplines, our hiddenness is at odds with the world. The World […]
I am concerned about the trend that sees and refers to others as “sheeple”, “zombies”, and “lizard people”. While ideological tags like “conservative” or “liberal” tend to shrink the scope of another’s personhood, these animal or undead tags aim to remove the personhood of others entirely.Contrast this with a few concepts that arise from the […]
The story of John Brown known to most of us but known by few of us, and to all of us will always be shrouded by mystery. The secrecy of the quiet but focused life of John Brown is both enigma and inspiration. There are bits of the story that shine through the shroud of […]
I just learned of the death of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Rabbi Sacks was a great teacher, and a wonderful ambassador for Judaism around the world. Any time I listened to him, I learned, grew, and was challenged. One thought of his, highly paraphrased, seems so appropriate now. He taught us, the question of why bad […]
The book of Revelation has about 2 chapters on the Beasts and 22 chapters on the Lamb. Yet we always talk about the Beasts. We prefer the Beasts, the are powerful, strong, obvious, and disturbing. If we were going to enlist a leader or protector would we pick a Beast or a Lamb? The human […]
“Robbie ,the Bible consists of two kinds of literature, history and myth. It is the job of the reader to distinguish between the two.” So said my grandpa as we sat at the dining room table. He was a bit taken aback that his grandson had taken to the reading of the Bible. The Bible, […]
If we were staying still, light that began 40 billion years ago at a distant point in the universe would be reaching us now. But it is not. The universe is expanding at increasing speed, faster than the speed of light. As a result we are pursued by ancient light that emanated long before we […]
The murder of Sean Bell remains a tragedy and becomes more so as the killing of un armed black men and women by police becomes epidemic. This song was written by John Hurt with new verses.
On the drawing board
I have taken a few running starts at Underhill’s major work on Practical Mysticism, but I have never gotten through it. I was surprised to discover this remarkable thinker was also a novelist. In the Grey World Underhill deals with life from the perspective of the dead, rather than death from the perspective of the […]
