• I have no right...
    I have no right...
    February 25, 2012
    ... to rebel against a tradition or to improve upon it until I have mastered it.
  • The final arbiter
    The final arbiter
    February 25, 2012
    The final arbiter (of truth) is individual conscience and power of reason. A man may...
  • pragmatism
    pragmatism
    February 21, 2012
    Occham's razor favours the simplest solution. Water favours the path of least resistance. People prefer the most...
  • certainty
    certainty
    January 30, 2012
    Why are we convinced that in spite of the complexity of the world, our own...
  • restorative justice
    restorative justice
    January 30, 2012
    We should base justice on creating restoration, by addressing root causes of problems. This will...
  • exile
    exile
    January 18, 2012
    Peter Enns compares Adam's banishment from Eden to Israel's exile, in this mind-expanding talk which I greatly...
  • Hatch
    Hatch
    January 12, 2012
    oh conniving incubator direct your brooding righteous anger to devise an assassination plot for greed See Also: Zoomable...
  • As far as the east is from the west...
    As far as the east is from the west...
    December 28, 2011
    ...so far has been the journey of the Genevan tunes. The Turkish psalms of Polish Hugenot, Ali...
  • Salvage Something
    Salvage Something
    December 24, 2011
    "The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation." Excerpt from T.S. Eliot, "The Dry...
  • Flesh Word
    Flesh Word
    December 15, 2011
    Flesh Word straddles the interface between idea and action. It's a kind of language game....
  • tentative
    tentative
    December 13, 2011
    Tense sensitive quietly siezed by the day, waits, receives, depends, endures (inner) drought, takes taken-for-grantedness for granted beams intentional passivity into...
  • limits
    limits
    November 30, 2011
    Instead of looking at your limits as something bad, see them as blessings: gifts that...
  • restless
    restless
    November 27, 2011
    Be still my soul the universe is on your side, and will defeat all your enemies and fight...
  • a pity party
    a pity party
    November 25, 2011
    Theistic evolution, when followed to its end, may lead Christians to question the authority of...
  • Space, Shape, Soul
    Space, Shape, Soul
    November 24, 2011
    Coordinates: 27.818124,-15.767749 This beach lies just to the west of the harbour in Mogán in Grand...
  • breaking up
    breaking up
    November 22, 2011
    What I represent to her now is failed relationship, ample weight for sinking, and pacified potential, dragged down. I...
  • true or false?
    true or false?
    November 21, 2011
    True or False: To truly understand it, You have to try it. True or False: To...
  • plain and simple
    plain and simple
    November 17, 2011
    No matter how hard I wish for plain simplicity, the world I live in will...
  • For You
    For You
    November 11, 2011
    As a child, I listened to a lot of Christian music. I did not make...
  • flying solo
    flying solo
    November 8, 2011
    In certain church subcultures, strength is derived from emphasis on marriages and family. That strength...
  • on CBC haters
    on CBC haters
    October 26, 2011
    So I get this random email criticising CBC for airing Katy Brand's Big Ass Show...
  • barmeno
    barmeno
    October 10, 2011
        I discovered this typeface today on the side of an "Adamson Lawn Care" trailer at...
  • Ambrogio Lorenzetti
    Ambrogio Lorenzetti
    September 29, 2011
    Corrie Kessler's mother has a print hanging in her house. It's Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Allegories of Good...
  • higher criticism
    higher criticism
    September 28, 2011
    Does higher criticism proceed solely on the basis of anti-supernatural and rationalistic presuppositions? Or does...
  • pure and elevated
    pure and elevated
    September 21, 2011
    I found this ambitious quote from A.W. Tozer: The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church...
  • paradoxicreed
    paradoxicreed
    September 6, 2011
    God Although God is an entirely human construct, humanity is also a divine construct: and divinity...
  • divine worm?
    divine worm?
    September 5, 2011
    If Jesus ever sang or read Psalm 22:6, did he mean it? If he really was...
  • reflections at grundy lake
    reflections at grundy lake
    September 2, 2011
    This is quite the place. Sandwiched between two lakes - each offering a unique incarnation...
  • the universe in my debt?
    the universe in my debt?
    August 31, 2011
    Giving comes back like a well sent boomerang. And tithing is unstoppable. But can I really put...
  • Raindrops
    Raindrops
    August 16, 2011
    6-year-old me didn't need to know the author's name, although the gold-coloured Newberry medal on...
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