Why I Am Not a (Good) Christian
[T]hough I have done it very imperfectly, yet I have found advantages by it. -Brother Lawrence[1] I am not a very good Christian. I struggle with it. I am easily...
Read More[T]hough I have done it very imperfectly, yet I have found advantages by it. -Brother Lawrence[1] I am not a very good Christian. I struggle with it. I am easily...
Read MoreI know Jesus admires the guy, but I have never really liked the centurion found in Matthew 8. He seems, well, a bit disingenuous. Perhaps I don’t trust the sentiment...
Read MoreWell, so that is it. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes— Some have got broken—and carrying them up to the attic....
Read More[H]ave you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘ I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of...
Read MoreEnough! the resurrection… -Gerard Manely Hopkins In a 1611 poem, John Donne addressed what he saw as the failure of the world to recognize the meaning behind the death...
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