The Myth of the Christ Figure
Mythological embodiment is a common allusion used in everyday English. A Herculean task is something...
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Physician-Assisted Death: A Few Thoughts About the Canadian Situation
In this blog post I am going to make a variety of observations about physician-assisted death (PAD), physician-assisted suicide (PAS), and euthanasia, in no particular order. Note that each observation will be necessarily compact and incomplete; these are not to be taken as definite statements but pieces of a puzzle to be mulled over as I (we, I hope) reflect on Canada’s situation.
Behold your wickedness
100 years ago, two miles from my house, seventeen-year-old Jesse Washington was lynched just outside the...
The Spectacle of Excess: Roland Barthes, Wrestling, and the Eucharist
In 1957, during his structuralist stage, Roland Barthes published a book of collected essays...
Murder and Moral Notions
In Towards Zero, one of Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries, Mr. Treves, a retired solicitor and specialist...
Safety is not a Christian virtue
In 1934, Dietrich Bonhoeffer addressed the ecumenical peace organization World Alliance for International...
#Blacklivesmatter: What does Christmas say about our nation?
It is the sixth day of Christmas as I write this post—the sixth day of a holiday that celebrates the truth...
A Net for Catching Days
For me, the phrase “writer’s bock” fails to capture the phenomenon. Block implies that there is inspiration...
The Anxiety of Use: A Reading Behind Paul’s Epistle to Philemon
In verse 20 Paul argues that in order to properly participate in the ministry of the gospel Philemon should turn into a type of Onesimus. In this verse, Paul argues that he wants Philemon to become onaimen (a benefit). This is accomplished by laying aside the dictates of the law for a mandate of grace. A true Christian, Paul seems to be arguing, is defined by their love and compassion for those who are absolutely distinct from them. A Christian’s power and authority lies in their ability to identify and become like the least, the refuge, the impoverished, the imprisoned, and the oppressed. This is the final message we have from of Paul in the Bible; it is a summation of his ministry.
Peter Bayle, Superskeptic
“the value of faith is directly proportional with its repugnancy to reason” “One must necessarily choose...